Chaplains' Memorial Dedicated

Yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery, a memorial was dedicated to the Jewish chaplains who have died while in service to our country over the decades.  The memorial stands on "Chaplains' Hill" next to the memorials for Protestant and Catholic chaplains.  Rabbi Fred Reiner, Sinai's emeritus rabbi, will speak this Friday at services in memory of his rabbinical school roommate, who died in Vietnam while serving as a chaplain.

Click to see the Washington Post's photo gallery from the dedication.

The Jewish chaplains memorialized are:
Rabbi Alexander Goode, 32, of Washington, D.C., who died when the USS Dorchester sank off the coast of Greenland in a Nazi torpedo attack.  Goode and three Christian chaplains died after they gave up their life vests for other soldiers. Nachman S. Arnoff, in an Army truck accident in 1946 at Camp Kilmer, N.J.; Meir Engel, of heart disease in 1964 in a Saigon hospital; Frank Goldberg, in a Jeep accident in 1946 in Austria; Henry Goody, after being hit by a streetcar at 14th and Upshur streets NW in 1943; Joseph I. Hoenig, of cerebral hemorrhage in 1966; Samuel Hurwitz, in 1943 in a military hospital in Temple, Tex.; Herman L. Rosen, who drowned just before reporting to chaplain school; Samuel Rosen, in a plane crash in 1955; Solomon Rosen, in 1948 after his plane exploded over Oklahoma; Morton Singer, in a plane crash in 1968; David Sobel, in an accident in Thailand in 1974; Irving Tepper, in action in France in 1945; and Louis Werfel, in 1943 after his plane crashed in the North Algerian mountains.