>>> WE’RE HAVING THE ARRIVAL PRAYER HERE DELIVERED BY THE
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.
>>> LET’S BRING IN JON MEACHAM. THE LITTERURGYLITURGY, TELL US,
BROAD CHURCH EPISCOPALIANISM?
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE
SERVICE COMING UP?
>> THIS IS BROAD CHURCH.
IT WILL FEEL VERY HIGH CHURCH
BECAUSE OF THE SETTING, BUT ONE
OF THE REMARKABLE GIFTS OF
ANGELOISM FROM THE 16th CENTURY
GOING FORWARD HAS BEEN THE
THEOLOGICAL IDEA AND IT’S
MANIFESTED IN THE SERVICE THAT
WE ARE ALL GOD’S CHILDREN.
AND SO THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO ME SOME DAY, WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO ANY SOUL WHO IS BURIED IN THE
CHURCH IS RECEIVED BY THE
ORDAINED PRIEST WHERE IT’S
ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT’S DUST TO
DUST.
DUST. WE COME FROM DUST AND TO DUST WE
SHALL RETURN.
SHALL RETURN. IT’S AN APPRECIATION OF THE
GREAT GIFTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
BUT ALSO THIS IS THE CHURCH
UNIVERSAL AND THE PRAYERS YOU
WILL HEAR WILL HAVE SPECIAL
RESONANCE BUT THEY WILL ALSO BE
REPEATED ENDLESS TIMES,
COUNTLESS TIMES AROUND THE
WORLD.
WORLD. >> IT WILL HAVE, FROM MY
EXPERIENCE -- TELL US, IT WILL
HAVE AN ELIZABETHEN FEEL TO IT
IN THE RHYTHMS OF THE MUSIC?
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE WHAT’S
GOING TO COME?
>> IT WILL.
THE LANGUAGE FROM THE PRAYER
BOOK, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER,
WHICH IS ONE OF THE GREAT
ACHIEVEMENTS WITH SHAKESPEARE,
WITH MILTON, IT SHAPED THE
LANGUAGE FOR CENTURIES, IT WILL
FEEL A LITTLE OLD-FASHIONED BUT
THAT’S THE CHURCH THAT SENATOR
McCAIN GREW UP IN.
REMEMBER HE WENT TO BOARDING
SCHOOL IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
AS A PRISONER IN HANOI, HE WAS
THE CHAPLAIN OF HIS CELL BLOCK
AND WOULD REPEAT LITURGY HE
REMEMBERED FROM THE OLD BOARDING
SCHOOL DAYS.
SCHOOL DAYS. THE FIRST HYMN WE WILL HEAR IS
ONE THAT WILL BE FAMILIAR TO
MOST AMERICANS WITH FAMILIARITY
OF HISTORY WHICH IS THE NAVY
HYMN, ETERNAL FATHER.
IT’S A VICTORIAN HYMN BOTH
ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NAVY AND BY
THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
IT’S WHERE THE PHRASE RESTLESS
WAVE CAME FROM WHICH SENATOR
McCAIN USED AS THE TITLE OF THE
LAST BOOK.
LAST BOOK. IT WAS SUNG BY WINSTON CHURCHILL
AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IN AUGUST
OF 1941 WHEN THEY WERE MEETING
SECRETLY AT SEA TO PLAN HOW TO
DEFEAT TYRANNY.
DEFEAT TYRANNY. IT WAS WAS SUNG AT PRESIDENT
KENNEDY’S SERVICES.
KENNEDY’S SERVICES. I REMEMBER DANIEL PATRICK
REMEMBERING THAT HIS CENTRAL
MEMORY OF THOSE TERRIBLE DAYS IN
NOVEMBER WAS THAT EVERYONE IN
WASHINGTON SUDDENLY KNEW ALL THE
WORDS TO ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG
TO SAVE, BUT WHEN YOU -- THE
OTHER THING AS THIS UNFOLDS AND
WHEN THE JUDGE OR PREACHER RISES
TO GIVE THE HOMILY IN THE
PULPIT, REMEMBER, THAT’S CALLED
THE CAN BERRY PULPIT.
WHERE MARTENIN LUTHER KING
DELIVERED THE FINAL SERMON ON
THE SAME DAY LINDEN JOHNSON
ANNOUNCED AND DECIDED TO LEAVE
THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
THE LAST TIME DOCTOR KING
PREACHED TO A SUNDAY SERVICE WAS
IN THIS CATHEDRAL AND USED THE
CENTRAL INSIGHT THAT THE ARCH OF
A MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT
BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE AND HIS
VOICE ECHOED THROUGH THIS
CATHEDRAL.
CATHEDRAL. ALSO AND I’M THINKING ABOUT
PRESIDENT BUSH SITTING THERE NOW
GEORGE W. BUSH.
THIS IS IN SOME WAYS THE MOMENT
AND THE PLACE HE BECAME
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. AND THE TERRIBLE SERVICE ON
AFTER THE ATTACKS ON THE FRIDAY
SERVICE BEFORE HE WENT TO GROUND
ZERO.
ZERO. >> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. >> HE SAID WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE
HOUR OF OUR GRIEF.
>> I AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THAT
JOHN.
JOHN. THAT WAS WHEN HE STOOD WITH THE
FIREFIGHTER AND SAID WE’RE GOING
TO GET THE PEOPLE THAT BROKE
DOWN THESE BUILDINGS.
LET ME GO TO A MAN WHO KNOWS
ABOUT WAR AND WAR FRONTS.
RICHARD ENGEL.
RICHARD ENGEL. ONE THING WE THINK ABOUT IN
THESE MOMENTS WAS WHAT IT WAS
LIKE WITH HIM OUT IN THE FRONT.
HE SPENT SO MUCH TIME WITH THE
TROOPS.
TROOPS. WARRIOR AMONG WARRIORS.
TELL US ABOUT YOU WITNESSING
THAT.
THAT. >> SO HE WAS SOMEONE WHO WOULD
ALWAYS SHOW UP IN HOT SPOTS IN
WAR ZONES AND OFTEN WITH VERY
LITTLE FEIGNANFARE.
LITTLE FEIGNANFARE. HE WOULD COME TO VISIT THE
TROOPS.
TROOPS. BIG SUPPORTERS OF THE TROOPS.
HE ALSO SUPPORTED THEIR MISSION.
A LOT OF POLITICIANS SAY THEY
ARE PATRIOTIC AND SUPPORT THE
TROOPS.
TROOPS. HE WAS A TRUE BELIEVER THAT THE
UNITED STATES HAD A MORAL
RESPONSIBILITY TO INTERVENE AND
IF YOU LOOK WITH WHAT HAS
HAPPENED TODAY.
HAPPENED TODAY. THE LEFT CAPITAL THAT GREEN STOP
AT THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WHERE HE
SPENT SO MANY YEARS AS A PRISON
OF WAR BEING ABUSED AND I THINK
THAT EXPERIENCE LEFT HIM
ALLERGIC TO BULLIES.
BULLIES AT HOME.
BULLIES ABROAD AND HIS BELIEF
WAS THAT THE UNITED STATES AS A
SUPER POWER NEEDED TO USE ITS
POWER TO STAND UP TO BULLIES.
ONE OF THE PALLBEARERS IS
VLADIMIR
VLADIMIR VLADIMIR, AN OPPONENT OF THE
PUTIN REGIME.
PUTIN REGIME. SOMEONE POISONED TWICE AT THE
BEHEST OF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE.
SOMEONE WHO BELIEVED THAT THE
UNITED STATES SHOULD ACT AND
THAT HAD SOME TIMES MIXED
CONSEQUENCES.
CONSEQUENCES. HE WAS A BIG SUPPORTERS OF THE
U.S. INTERVENTION IN LIBYA.
I REMEMBER SEEING HIM IN LIBYA.
HE WANTED THE UNITED STATES TO
ACT MORE FORCIBLY IN SYRIA.
BIG ADVOCATE OF THE IRAQ WAR