It was about 20 years ago. We had a terrible scare.
My son (the youngest of the bunch) was “mustering” for his Civil War platoon. The kids, ranging in age from 8 to 10, were learning about Alexandria’s (VA) activities in the war. (You should know that it was a Federal bastion, with a slew of forts around the periphery to protect against Confederate encroachment. And, you do recall that the District of Columbia originally was comprised of 5 square miles separated from Maryland and 5 square miles from Virginia; this town was at one time known as Alexandria, DC.)