Kurt Röser, Ben Epstein, David Labadie, Senator Bob Dole, Dick Swanson, Walter Miller, and Gerhard Buske at the Reconciliation Ceremony in Washington, DC. The ceremony was part of the celebration surrounding the awarding of the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity, February 14, 2000. Röser and Buske were aboard the U-boat, Epstein, Miller and Labadie are survivors of the Dorchester, and Dick Swanson was aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Comanche, which hunted the U-boat.

The Survivors meet at the White house and clasp hands as part of the reconciliation process.