Military service often means making sacrifices. You can’t be with your loved ones all the time when you’re in the service.
The military can re-assign service members at any time, which means the family has to relocate with them.
Soldiers are often required to leave their homes and families and go to remote locations on short notice. When necessary, men and women of the military might have to risk their lives and give the ultimate sacrifice.
These sacrifices may be acknowledged or recognized, publicly or privately, but they are a part of the reality that is serving the United States.
Four Chaplains Day is one such day of public observation. Each year on Feb. 3rd, this day of remembrance is celebrated across the country. It honors four military chaplains who sacrificed their own lives to save the lives of their fellow service members during WWII.
The men who came to be known as the Four Chaplains were Methodist minister the Reverend George L. Fox, Reformed Church in America minister the Reverend Clark V. Poling, Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode (PhD), and Roman Catholic priest Father John P. Washington. The four men had met while attending Chaplains School at Harvard in preparation for each of their appointments as chaplains.
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