The son of a Jewish Rabbi, after graduating from Eastern High School in Washington, D.C., where he excelled in sports, Alexander Good chose to follow in his fatherÕs footsteps. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, and then in 1937 from Hebrew Union College, he became a Rabbi himself. Also in 1935, he married Teresa Flax, niece of Al Jolson. Goode he received his PhD from John Hopkins College, and subsequently served as rabbi at Marion, Indiana, and York, Pennsylvania. While at York he founded Boy Scout Troop 37 as a multi-cultural, mixed-race troop, the first in the United States to have scouts earn Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant awards. He applied in 1941 to serve as a Navy chaplain, but was denied. The following year he was commissioned a U.S. Army Chaplain. At the chaplainÕs school at Harvard he became close friends with three other chaplains, each of different denominations, and the four of them deployed together for the European Theater of Operations. En route, their troop ship the U.S.A.T. Dorchester, was torpedoed in the North Atlantic. All four chaplains, still close friends despite their differences in denomination, rendered aid and comfort during the sinking of the ship, and gave up their life jackets to other soldiers. Their heroic deaths immortalized them as “The Four Immortal Chaplains of World War II.”