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The best time to fly was right after 9/11. There were nothing but business travelers and the National Guard manned the security checkpoints with orders to shoot morons. (I would like to believe they had those orders)
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I still see pairs of National Guard in combat fatigue, patroling airports with semiautomatic (and/or possibly automatic) combat rifles- with their fingers next to their triggers at all times.
Yeah, I remember flying out of Los Angeles not long after 9/11, and saw the same thing.