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b'Dana Lawhorne, Sheriff of the City of Alexandria, VA, on the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Bridge jumper negotiations ~\\n\\n"We went out there. Derek Gaunt\\u2019s talking to the guy. As a team leader my responsibility is to watch him and sort of manage what\\u2019s going on. Anyway, we\\u2019d been out there about six hours, sun went down. We got a little cold, but it was a threat that he\\u2019d had a gun. That\\u2019s why we backed off."\\n\\nDana Lawhorne, Sheriff of the City of Alexandria, VA and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen. This is Our Town. I\'m delighted, I say that all the time Dana, but I really mean it in your case because you approached me and we were at a Heroes meeting and you brought up WMAL and the fact that you grew up with it, and that impressed me more than your badge and more than your stars because you are part of Our Town. I\'m so delighted to have you with us.\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tThank you for having me. What an honor and a privilege. My life is complete.\\nAndy Ockershausen: As a listener and a purveyor of the scene you knew what WMAL was about and I was impressed that you can remember those people and those names.\\nAlexandria, VA Born and Bred\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tYes, I grew up in Alexandria, been there my whole life. The house I live in now I look out the back door and see the house that I grew up in. Every household ... I\'m 60 so you\'re going back to the early \'60s, every household was on AM630. That\'s how I just kind of thought that that\'s what everybody listened to.\\nGrowing Up with WMAL AM630\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tI\'d always wake up in the morning to Harden and Weaver, so when you first wake up you\'re kind of in a daze and I\'m like, "There\'s them guys again." I said that. My mom must\'ve rented my room to somebody. I thought they lived in the house actually. I just thought they were part of the family. I grew up on AM630 and all the greats, the personality radio back in the day. The radio was based on personalities.\\nAndy Ockershausen: Your family named you Dana. To me, when I grew up Dana was a girl\'s name, but I love it. Dana Andrew was my first experience of an actor. Remember him?\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tOh yeah.\\nAndy Ockershausen: Great actor.\\nWhat\'s In a Name, Literally!\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tI can tell you two things about that real quick. I suspect that\'s where they got the name. I was born in 1957 and that was his heyday. I mean he was big.\\nAndy Ockershausen: Oh boy.\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tI\'m a big Dana Andrews fan. That\'s the story I like to tell. Growing up there were no male Danas. They were all girl Danas.\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tIt was tough. It was tough.\\nAndy Ockershausen: I\'ll bet it was.\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tLet me tell you, and it\'s still tough at age 60.\\nAndy Ockershausen: It\'s tough in Alexandria too.\\nLawhorne Finds the Humor in His Name\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tLook, they still think I\'m a girl. I go to the doctor and I\'m the only one sitting in the waiting room. They walk out and they go, "Dana Lawhorne," they like looking all round they go, they turn around and they go to the back. I\'m like knocking on the door, "I\'m Dana Lawhorne." They\'re like, "Oops." They do. They go, "Oops, sorry." I\'m like, "I\'m used to it. Don\'t worry about it."\\nAndy Ockershausen: I knew it. It had to be.\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tAll the coupons I get from CVS, the rewards, they\'re all for ...\\nAndy Ockershausen: Dana, you impress me so much in our conversation. You really knew about Our Town. You know about growing up here. You knew how important WMAL was to everybody, not just to Alexandria. You grew up as a cop in Alexandria, so you had a dose of what we were and what we were doing. You\'re such a great friend of WMAL. We appreciate you.\\nAM630 WMAL Good Memories of Days Gone By\\nLarry Krebs\\nDana Lawhorne:\\tSomebody told me about your podcast show and I longed for the days of true radio talk, if you ask me, where the talk radio was based on personalities. You were just part of our home.'