Today is Tuesday, February 5th, 2013; Karen's Korner #2502

Taken from "God's Promises for the American Patriot"by Dr. Richard G. Lee and Jack Countryman; something that happened seventy years ago in February:
 
Faithful Until the End
 
"Shortly before 1 a.m. on February 2, 1943, the American transport ship 'Dorcester' was steaming through the icy North Atlantic, from Newfoundland toward an American base in Greenland, carrying 903 servicemen, merchant seamen, and civilian workers, when a German torpedo struck the starboard side.
 
"Through the pandemonium, four Army chaplains--George L. Fox, Methodist; Alexander D. Goode, Jewish; John P. Washington, Roman Catholic; and Clark P. Poling, Dutch Reformed--brought hope to the men struggling to survive, even taking off their own life vests and giving them to four frightened young men.
 
"Then in the darkness, singing and shouting Biblical encouragement, the four chaplains linked arms and grasped the railing of the ship as it slipped into the ocean. William Bodnar said that, as he floated among dead comrades, 'Their voices.....were the only thing that kept me going.'
 
"Of the men aboard the 'Dorcester', 672 died, including the chaplains. Their heroic conduct offered a vision of greatness that stunned America."
 
"Greater love has no one than this,
than to lay down one's life for his friends."
~ John 15:13
 
"I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep."
~ John 10:11
 
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