ELO:
Jefferts Schori arrived at Bolling Air Force Base on December 20, and spent the following day there, preaching at the 8:15 a.m. service and learning about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the Rev. Michael McEwen, an Episcopal Army chaplain.
Touring the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on December 22, the Presiding Bishop spoke with soldiers who had lost limbs in service and met with the families of those suffering from traumatic brain injuries.
“It’s been very, very good,” Jefferts Schori said as she traversed the Pentagon’s corridors with the Rt. Rev. George Packard, the Episcopal Church’s bishop suffragan for chaplaincies; the Rev. Gerry Blackburn, director for federal chaplaincies; and members of the Pentagon’s Episcopal community. “We had long discussions with the chaplains about the work they do.”
But this day she was quiet, thoughtful.
Putting on sunglasses and turning up her collar, she stepped outside into the bright, cold morning to visit the memorial to the victims of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon.
Read it all here. Episcope has more pictures.
Earlier Cafe post here.