[ WP ] A priest , a rabbi , and a minister walk into a bar . But this is no joke , this is a tragedy .

Actually, it is *two* ministers, a priest and a rabbi. They are also known as the Four Immortal Chaplains. They were all relatively new chaplains, lieutenants all, who the Army had trained together at Army Chaplains School at Harvard. 
 
 They were on *the Dorchester*, when she was sunk by a submarine on February 3, 1943, off of Newfoundland, during World War II. They gave their life jackets to other soldiers, and helped soldiers onto the few undamaged lifeboats. The chaplains joined arms, said prayers and sang hymns as they went down with the ship. 
 
 They were Methodist minister Reverend George L. Fox, Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, Roman Catholic priest the Reverend John P. Washington and Reformed Church in America minister Reverend Clark V. Polling. This is history. 
 
 Their story isn ’ t tragic, it ’ s heroic. They are a symbol of interfaith action. 672 soldiers also died when the Dorchester went down, but these four had a commemorative stamp, in 1948, when that was rare, and an award is given yearly for interfaith action in early February in their honor. There are interfaith chapels and leaded glass windows all over the country in their honor. 
 
 There is no evidence that they ever walked into a bar together, but they did train at Harvard, so they certainly could have. 

