American Legionnaire Shirl Snodgrass lights a candle in memory of the Four Chaplains.

During the height of World War II, Allied troop transport ship SS Dorchester was traveling in the North Atlantic near Newfoundland when it was struck by torpedoes fired by a German submarine. The attack took out the ship’s electrical system, and many men were trapped below decks. The crew’s four chaplains helped with the evacuation of the ship, and acted as a…