The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2023

24 JULY-AUGUST 2023 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL A tragic anniversary is upon us. Aug. 7, 2023, will be 25 years since the al-Qaida terrorist bombing attack on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. To mark the 20th anniversary in 2018, the FSJ reached out to survivors and compiled reflections from 40 people who were on the ground in Nairobi or Dar when the unthinkable happened. Please return to those powerful stories in the July-August 2018 FSJ to better understand that seminal moment and the way the mission communities came together and carried on. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary, we check back in with Ambassadors Prudence Bushnell and John Lange, distinguished retired career members of the Senior Foreign Ser- vice, who both contributed to the 2018 collection. Pru Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassa- dor to Kenya and John Lange as chargé d’affaires in Tanzania at the time of the bombings. In a conversation with the Journal , they shared their thoughts looking back. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell Ambassador John Lange East Africa Embassy Bombings 25 Years Later COVER STORY Two ambassadors look back on what happened and what it means now. RE F L ECT I ONS FROM AMBASSADORS PRUDENCE BUSHNE L L AND JOHN E . LANGE