On September 11, 2001, our Senior Chaplain, the Rev. Rob Dewey, was deployed with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) to New York City.  Over the two weeks following the terrorist attacks, he served as the DMORT Chaplain at several locations, including ground-zero and the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. 
 
While in New York, Rob was available 24/7 for over 300 deployed DMORT members from the southeast and the southwest.  Chaplain Dewey says, “I was honored to serve beside these men and women who dropped everything in their personal lives and responded to President Bush’s call-up.  No matter what ones faith background, all want the bodies, or the remains, returned to show proper respect.  Thanks to the DMORT personnel, many families were able to have some resolution when their loved ones were returned. Though I will never understand the evil of  'man', I do understand the goodness of the people who are members of DMORT.  Thank God for them. I pray we never have to be deployed again.”