In today's Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan details the scary evacuation that took place around the Capitol before the Reagan state funeral. "As we moved down the Capitol steps a guard yelled 'Run for your lives! Ladies, take off your shoes, run for your lives! Go north. North!'" I was there (on the outside and not the inside of the Capitol), and that's exactly what I remember. With 9/11 still fresh in everyone's minds, the false alarm had men, women, and children running for their lives. Instead of saying, "Don't panic," the police were in effect saying, "Do panic." It was surreal.