First look at the new Bethesda Bagels at Bethesda Row (Photos)

Bethesda Bagels is hoping to reopen tomorrow, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, after a lengthy renovation of the store's interior. Here's an exclusive first look at the results. Bethesda Bagels is located at 4819 Bethesda Avenue.

U.S. STATE DEPT. CALLS ON BETHESDA'S GEORGETOWN BAGELRY TO PROVIDE BAGELS FOR FAMILIES OF AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS, LIBYA CONSULATE VICTIMS AHEAD OF OBAMA-CLINTON CEREMONY

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Americans watching four flag-draped caskets being carried into an Andrews Air Force Base hangar to the strains of "Nearer My God to Thee," were likely unaware of a small role one Bethesda business played in the ceremonies.

Earlier Friday morning, U.S. State Department Chief of Protocol Capricia Marshall contacted Georgetown Bagelry, in the Kenwood Station shopping center in Bethesda.  Marshall asked if the bakery could fill a large order for Andrews Air Force Base.  Families of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the other victims of the Libyan attacks - as well as government officials - were at the base, awaiting the arrival of their bodies via a C-17 cargo plane.

Marshall needed someone to provide food for those families and officials, while they waited at the base.  President Obama reportedly met the families privately prior to the hangar ceremony.

Not surprisingly, for a business that regularly offers discounts to servicemembers, Georgetown Bagelry gladly filled the rush order.  Owner Mary Beall Adler said "a lot of love" went into the bagels the shop's team delivered to Andrews Friday afternoon.  Adler said she and the staff were "honored to play such a small part in such an important and humbling event."