The outpouring of volunteers has been tremendous. I have a significant backlog of e-mails from across NAVFAC Washington and from personnel assigned to commands supported by us, ready to go and assist those in need.

We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, there was just this vast separation that you didn't have any kind of contact with until you went beyond the boundaries of your community.

I couldn't be more excited about this. We worked for two years to have one of the Washington, D.C., bands come. It's very difficult to do — you kind of have to book them two to three years in advance.

D.C. is very cosmopolitan. Washington is very unusual for its size in terms of food offerings.

Not taking anything away from Washington, that's a very good basketball team down there, (but) it looked like our guys thought they were coming out after the first three minutes.

[The FAA's controllers advise Defense officials about any looming intrusions into the Washington region's flight restriction zone, but NORAD officials have final authority to send up the F-16s.] We're in charge of restricting the airspace, ... but the military has control over protecting the airspace.