The Foreign Service Journal, October 2018

44 OCTOBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Washington offices that obviously were not coordinating with each other. Digging through their to-do items for us was taking me away from supporting Jess’ family and our team. The bureaucracy does not step up in situations like this, but people do.” We followed Jessica’s homecoming through Lisa’s Facebook posts. From Rangoon to Hanoi, and then to Ho Chi Minh City, supported in both places by embassy and consulate staff. Then the long flight to Dubai, then to Dulles and bad weather that delayed their onward travel for agonizing days. Then a flight to Atlanta and yet another delay. Jessica’s coffin returns to the United States, where colleagues were waiting to receive it. RAYCIANFRANO