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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. CON. RES. 4 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 27, 2011 

Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 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 the USS Dorchester was sunk by 

German torpedoes off the coast of Greenland; 

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; 


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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 World War II, 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 Chaplain Rabbi Herman Rosen’s 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; 

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; 


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Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Samuel Hurwitz died in service of his faith and his country 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 Senate (the House of Representatives 

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 and that, in order 

10 to preserve, protect, and maintain the limited amount of 

11 space available at Arlington National Cemetery and en12 sure that future proposals for commemorative works are 

13 appropriately designed, constructed, and located and re14 flect a consensus of the lasting national significance of the 


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1 subjects involved, the President of the United States, as 

2 Commander in Chief, should establish an Arlington Na3 tional Cemetery Memorial Advisory Commission and pro4 cedures for the evaluation and approval of new monu5 ments and memorials comparable to those in chapter 89 

6 of title 40, United States Code (commonly referred to as 

7 the ‘‘Commemorative Works Act’’). 

Passed the Senate May 26, 2011. 

Attest: NANCY ERICKSON, 

Secretary. 


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