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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 12 

Expressing the sense of Congress that an appropriate site on Chaplains 

Hill in Arlington National Cemetery should be provided for a memorial 

marker to honor the memory of the Jewish chaplains who died while 

on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 25, 2011 

Mr. WEINER (for himself, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. 

LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. ROONEY, Mr. WEST, and Mr. GRIMM) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 

Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of Congress that an appropriate site 

on Chaplains Hill in Arlington National Cemetery should 

be provided for a memorial marker to honor the memory 

of the Jewish chaplains who died while on active duty 

in the Armed Forces of the United States. 

Whereas 13 Jewish chaplains have died while on active duty 

in the Armed Forces of the United States; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Alexander Goode died on February 3, 1943, when then USS Dorchester was sunk by 

German torpedoes off the coast of Greenland; 


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Whereas Chaplain Goode received the Four Chaplains’ Medal 

for Heroism and the Distinguished Service Cross for his 

heroic efforts to save the lives of those onboard the Dorchester; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Irving Tepper was killed in 

action in France on August 13, 1944; 

Whereas Chaplain Tepper also saw combat in Morocco, Tunisia, and Sicily while attached to an infantry combat team 

in the Ninth Division; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Louis Werfel died on December 24, 1944, at the young age of 27, in a plane crash 

while en route to conduct Chanukah services; 

Whereas Chaplain Werfel was known as ‘‘The Flying Rabbi’’ 

because his duties required traveling great distances by 

plane to serve Army personnel of Jewish faith at outlying 

posts; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Meir Engel died at the Naval 

Hospital in Saigon on December 16, 1964, after faithfully serving his country during WWII, the Korean War, 

and the Vietnam War; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Morton Singer died on December 17, 1968, in a plane crash while on a mission in 

Vietnam to conduct Chanukah services; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Herman Rosen died in service 

of his faith and his country on June 18, 1943; 

Whereas his son, Air Force Chaplain Solomon Rosen, also 

died in service of his faith and his country on November 

2, 1948; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Nachman Arnoff died in service of his faith and his country on May 9, 1946; 


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Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Frank Goldenberg died in 

service of his faith and his country on May 22, 1946; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Henry Goody died in service 

of his faith and his country on October 19, 1943; 

Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Samuel Hurwitz died in service of his faith and his country on December 9, 1943; 

Whereas Air Force Chaplain Rabbi Samuel Rosen died in 

service of his faith and his country on May 13, 1955; 

Whereas Air Force Chaplain Rabbi David Sobel died in service of his faith and his country on March 7, 1974; 

Whereas Chaplains Hill in Arlington National Cemetery memorializes the names of 242 chaplains who perished while 

on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States; 

and 

Whereas none of the 13 Jewish chaplains who have died while 

on active duty are memorialized on Chaplains Hill: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that an ap3 propriate site on Chaplains Hill in Arlington National 

4 Cemetery should be provided for a memorial marker, to 

5 be paid for with private funds, to honor the memory of 

6 the Jewish chaplains who died while on active duty in the 

7 Armed Forces of the United States, so long as the Sec8 retary of the Army has exclusive authority to approve the 

9 design and site of the memorial marker. 

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