SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 LOCAL DIGEST THEREGION
6 people shot; 3 die of wounds Six people were shot, three of
them fatally, in separate out- breaks of violence early Saturday in the District and Prince George’s County, police said. In Forestville, county officers
responding to a report of gunfire at Walters Lane and Hil Mar Drive shortly before 7:30 a.m. found a man dead in a car, said Prince George’s police Cpl.Henry Tippett.He said the victim’s iden- tity was being withheld pending notificationof hisnext of kin.The shooting remains under investi- gation by homicide detectives. D.C. police, meanwhile, are in-
vestigating the slaying of a 19- year-oldman foundwith gunshot wounds about 2 a.m. in the Pet- worth area of Northwest Wash- ington, Lt. Nicholas Bruel said. He said the victim, DavidWeston of Southeast Washington, was shot several times near Georgia Avenue and Allison Street NW.
Another homicide was record-
ed in theDistrict after a car crash in Southeast Washington shortly after 4:30 a.m., Bruel said. After the car crashed in the 3700 block of First Street SE, he said, fire- fighters trying to rescue the driv- er discovered that he had been shot. The victimwas identified as Delonte Butler, 29, of Seat Pleas- ant. In PrinceGeorge’s shortly after
2 a.m., Tippett said, a dispute at a party in Oxon Hill spilled out of an apartment and ended in gun- fire. He said two men and a woman were hit by bullets in the incident, in the 5500 block of Livingston Terrace, but none suf- feredwounds that are considered life-threatening. The shooting re- mains under investigation, Tip- pett said.
—Paul Duggan
Another hot day at Reagan ties record The official thermometer at
Reagan National Airport cleared
90 degrees again Saturday — the 67th time it has done so this year, tying a record set in 1980. The high of 93 made for an
uncomfortable day at an array of outdoor events around the city, and followed a high of 99 on Friday that broke the previously daily record by 5 degrees. The forecast for Sunday calls
for a high of 89 degrees, and The Post’s CapitalWeatherGang proj- ects a 40 percent chance that the temperature will nudge above that for a 68th time in 2010, breaking the record. The latest in the year that the
temperature has reached 90 or higher at Reagan National is Oct. 11, but the odds of this happening in coming weeks decrease dra- matically as days shorten and the average high falls from the mid- 70s in late September to below70 bymid-October. The hot weather in the region
has been caused by a pattern of persistent high pressure to the south that has pumped tropical air northward.
—Fromstaff reports
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The meaningful sounds that signal the end of the day for the military
Have you looked into the new
policy at the vice president’s house,where “Colors” is played at sunset when the flag is low- ered? I want to know: Is the trumpet recorded or live? —Robert Hyman, Glover Park
The horn that neighbors can
hear coming from the Naval Ob- servatory off Massachusetts Ave- nueNWis played bySenior Chief Musician James M. Ruffaner of the United States Navy Band. Or, rather, it was played by Senior Chief Ruffaner — played and re- corded. That recording, now an MP3 file on a computer at the installation, is triggered every evening as part of a long-standing Navy tradition. It’s a tradition for more than
just the Navy, of course. Every branch of the military marks the end of the day in its own slightly different manner. Take theNaval Observatory, for
example. Although most installa- tions play what’s called “Evening Colors” at a set time — usually 5 p.m. — the Naval Observatory plays it at a different time each night: sunset. After all, the Naval Observatory is the nation’s offi- cial keeper of astronomical data, from the positions of various heavenly bodies to the exact mo- ment the sun rises and falls. Precise time is important for
PHOTOS BY JUANA ARIAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Family members look at old photo albums. The first Paley reunion was in 1946, just afterWorldWar II. A century later, family doesn’t forget reunion from C1
land. Whilemany familiesholdocca-
sional reunions to share photos and bring together relatives from across the country, the Paleys rev- el annually in a shared history, rootedinwhat one calleda classic American tale of early 20th-cen- tury immigration. For 65 years, they have gathered to pass the family lore from one generation to the next, their voicesmingling in a cacophony of “Really? Letme tell you what my grandmother told me,” and “Let me tell you a story.” “We have a great oral history in
the Paley family,” said Susan Pa- ley, 43, of Alexandria, who orga- nized this year’s gathering. “It’s a living history we get to tap into every year we come together and take a break from our uber-busy lives. It’s a touchstone for us.” The reunion’s stars are the el-
dest cousins:Alfred,Seymourand theother children,allnowintheir 70s and 80s, born to the fivemen and threewomenwho fled czarist Russia’speasantpoverty andJew- ish persecution. Now the next generation—thegreat-grandchil- drenofMorrisPaley,who arenow in their 40s, 50s and 60s — have taken over the reunion organiz- ing,bringingalongtheirownchil- dren to hear the stories. “My friends all say, ‘I don’t
understand. Inmyfamily, thisone doesn’t talktothisone—we could neverallget together,’ ” saidSylvia PaleyGilbert, 88, ofLouisville,Ky. “That doesn’thappeninour fami- ly. We’re made out of the same blood.” The reunions began after
WorldWar II,whenGilbert sent a postcardtoher cousins, including eight who had served in the war. “All the boys came home fromthe service,” Alfred Paley recalledGil- bert’spostcardsaying. “Whydon’t we get together?”
The descendants ofMorris Paley and his eight children who attended this year’s gathering ranged in age from 4 to 88.
“That was 1946,” Alfred Paley
said, “andwe’vebeendoingit ever since.” The family has its own Face-
book page for sharing news. This year, they broadcast the reunion via streaming video on the Web for relativeswho couldn’t attend. AlfredPaley attributes the fam-
ily bond to his generation — the children of the eight siblingswho came by boat — growing up to- gether inBrooklynandtheBronx. The cousins spent every Sunday visiting their grandfather,he said, and every summer playing and sleeping together on straw- stuffedmattresses at another rel- ative’s home. “That bind is still there,”Alfred
Paley said. “We just love being together.” In between story-swapping
sessions, the group took in the Washington sights. Several tagged along with Gilbert as the tiny, stooped woman slowly pushed her walker around the fountain at theWorldWar IIme- morial. She had come to honor
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HarryGilbert,her latehusbandof 60 years, who spent a year in a German prison camp after his U.S. Army Air Forces plane was shot down during thewar. Cousins gathered around Gil-
bert as she cried upon seeing her husband’s name in the memori- al’s computerized registry of vet- erans and rubbed her arms when she said a chill came over her in front of thememorial’s fountain. “I’mtrembling all over,”Gilbert
said, as her voice caught with emotion. “To think that I lived to see this.” Something earlier in the day
had made her tear up as well: seeing nearly 40 familymembers from four generations chatting and laughing as they gathered for a group photo in the Holiday Inn courtyard. Gilbert pointed out two cousins who hadn’t attended a reunion in 15 years. “I will remember this for the
rest of my life,” Gilbert said, her voice quivering. “They finally came.”
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sailors. In the days before global positioning satellites, a chronom- eter — a super-accurate clock — was used to help ascertain longi- tude on the seas. When the Naval Observatory opened in its origi- nal location in Foggy Bottom, a large ball was dropped at noon each day, a signal to ships docked in Georgetown harbor and the NavyYard for captains to set their clocks. Nowadays the observato- ry has cesium and hydrogen ma- ser clocks, instruments that devi- ate no more than one-billionth of a second a day. The clocks are tied in to the computer that plays “Colors.” It’s sounded five minutes before sun- set to notify everyone of what’s coming up. At sunset, “Retreat” plays. Personnel stand at atten- tion, and the American flag in front of Building One is lowered. After “Retreat,” the sprightly “Carry On” is sounded, signaling the end of the ceremony. “Colors” and “Carry On” are also played in the mornings, sandwiching the national anthem, which is played at 8 a.m. while the flag is raised. By the way, the Navy Band told Answer Man that although these various pieces of music are known as “bugle calls,” they were played on a trumpet. The reason the music is so
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Cpl.HarveyMarshall and Sgt.Michael Engramof theNaval District ofWashington Police fold the flag at theNaval Observatory.
audible is because a new public address system was installed in summer 2009. There are six big speakers pointing in three direc- tions. (The one direction where the speakers don’t point? Toward the vice president’s house.) The speaker system is called “Giant Voice,” and the daily routine is a way to test it, because it is also used in the event of an emergen- cy.
Over at FortMyer in Arlington
County, members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (the Old Guard) lower two flags: one at Whipple Field, the other at Sum- merall Field. An added feature at Summerall Field: A cannon is discharged every evening at 5 p.m. Go, Army! At Andrews Air Force Base,
they usually don’t bother lower- ing the flag at all. Instead, when it gets dark, a light automatically clicks on and illuminates the
ANIMALWATCH A surprise delivery at the gas station ALEXANDRIA, North Patrick
and Wythe streets, Sept. 10. Responding to a call, an animal control officer talked to awoman at a gas station who said that while she was pumping gas, she heard “meows” coming from a parked gasoline tanker. She
asked the truck driver whether he had a cat in his truck, and he said he did not. The woman and another cus-
tomer opened the truck's hood and found a kitten huddled on the engine. The customer re- moved it and held it until an
officer arrived. The uninjured kitten,which did not have identi- fication tags, was to be made available for adoption if no one claimed it.
Among cases handled by the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.
installation flagpole. That’s the Air Force for you: technology, baby. If you crave the sound of a real
bugle played by a real bugler, hangaround theMarine Barracks at Eighth and I streets SE. A member of the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps, aka the Commandant’s Own, blows “Col- ors” — at sunset, just like at the Naval Observatory. To Cmdr. David Varner, com- manding officer at the Naval Ob- servatory, the sound of “Colors” is more than mere routine. “If you’re lucky enough to hear it, you submit,” he said. “It becomes personal. It’s a chance to think about what the Navy means and to reflect on what it means to be an American, especially in this area.”
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