We just returned from a trip which involved going through major U.S. airports eight times. In the process, we encountered dozens of TIA security guards.

Part of the trip entailed a week in Washington, DC where we visited several museums of the Smithsonian, the Capitol, the Library of Congress, the Holocaust Museum, the National Archives and several of the monuments. Here we encountered dozens more security guards including The Capitol Police, the DC Police and several contractor security companies. There were even security people just standing at strategic places along the street. We were X-rayed, magnetometered and searched more than a dozen times and showed our driver's licenses at least two dozen times.

It occurs to us that, in the past three and one half years, Osama Bin Laden has created more jobs in the U.S. than George W. Bush has!

Bev and Jerry