IV 
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) sub-
mitted 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 Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction 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 Feb-
ruary 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 Dor-
chester; 
Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Irving Tepper was killed in 
action in France on August 13, 1944; 
Whereas Chaplain Tepper also saw combat in Morocco, Tuni-
sia, and Sicily while attached to an infantry combat team 
in the Ninth Division; 
Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Louis Werfel died on Decem-
ber 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 faith-
fully serving his country during WWII, the Korean War, 
and the Vietnam War; 
Whereas Army Chaplain Rabbi Morton Singer died on De-
cember 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 serv-
ice 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 serv-
ice 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 serv-
ice of his faith and his country on March 7, 1974; 
Whereas Chaplains Hill in Arlington National Cemetery me-
morializes 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 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that an ap-
propriate site on Chaplains Hill in Arlington National 
Cemetery should be provided for a memorial marker, to 
be paid for with private funds, to honor the memory of 
the Jewish chaplains who died while on active duty in the 
Armed Forces of the United States, so long as the Sec-
retary of the Army has exclusive authority to approve the 
design and site of the memorial marker. 
Æ 
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