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NORTHPORT VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER
The purpose of the Masonic Service Association at Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center is to guarantee that the patients have a worship service every Sunday, have visitors at least every Sunday and to pass out gifts to every patient several times per year. We are there to help, aid and assist them in any way we can and to see that they are well cared for by the staff.
Our motto is:
If you are a Freemason and would like to volunteer your time to
help serve in this worthy manner please
Contact Us!
Click Here For Suffolk Lodges' Service Calendar at Northport V.A. Hospital
Click Here For Amityville Lodge's Service Calendar at Northport V.A. Hospital
Story Of The Chapel Of The Four Chaplains
The Dorchester, a troop ship, was sailing the North Atlantic when a torpedo struck. The date was February 3, 1943, shortly after midnight. There was panic everywhere. Four men remained calm - Chaplain (LT) Alexander Goode (Jewish), Chaplain (LT) John Washington (Roman Catholic), Chaplain (LT) George Fox (Methodist) and Chaplain (LT) Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed). They guided the men into lifeboats. When the lifeboats were filled, they distributed life jackets and when the life jackets were gone, they gave their own life jackets. It took 27 minutes for the ship to sink. But survivors still remember the four chaplains, arm in arm, voices raised in prayer standing on the deck. At that moment they felt that their work was done; but it was not. The act of these four chaplains inspired the founding of a Chapel.
President Harry Truman was present at the opening of the Chapel of Four Chaplains in Philadelphia. But this chapel was more than a monument. As one of its first projects, the chapel created the Legion of Honor to recognize those who through their selfless acts make our communities better places in which to live.
Twenty-one years ago the Northport VAMC selected its first member into the Legion of Honor. In nineteen of the last twenty-one years, they have added to the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor. It is with pride and honor that Amityville Masonic Lodge #977 recognizes two of its members, W\Donald Marino and Bro. Edward Kleiner, who were inducted into the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor on Sunday, February 1st, 2004 at 1:00pm at Northport VAMC.
Chapel of the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Induction Ceremony
Sunday, February 1st, 2004 at Northport VAMC
L to R: Awardee W:. Don Marino, Protestant Chaplain Stanley Deveaux, Awardee
Bro. Ed Kleiner
The Proud Marino and Kleiner Families!
