IV 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; 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; 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

That it is the sense of Congress that an appropriate 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 Secretary of the Army has exclusive authority to approve the design and site of the memorial marker and that, in order to preserve, protect, and maintain the limited amount of space available at Arlington National Cemetery and ensure that future proposals for commemorative works are appropriately designed, constructed, and located and reflect a consensus of the lasting national significance of the subjects involved, the President of the United States, as Commander in Chief, should establish an Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Advisory Commission and procedures for the evaluation and approval of new monuments and memorials comparable to those in chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Commemorative Works Act).

Passed the Senate May 26, 2011. Nancy Erickson, Secretary