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Column: Four chaplains saved countless lives on a sinking WWII troop ship. Their story continues to promote unity and selfless service eight decades later.

NanoStockk/iStock/Getty Images Plus During the course of this “pandemic” and the self-inflicted crisis it has created, fewer words have received more of a workout than the word “hero.” Coming from a pre-9/11 generation, heroism has a certain meaning to me. This is what I think of when I think of heroism: On Feb. 3, 1943, the U.S.A.T. Dorchester carrying 902 service men, merchant seamen and civilian workers was sunk in the cold Atlantic. Through the pandemonium, according to those presen...