Travel Since 9/11 |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 10:16 am |
| Tags: politics news, travel, world, 9 11 |
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September 11. I can think of nothing that's affected travelers for the worse since the last World War. We now travel with fear, paranoia, and bureaucracy. Taking a flight abroad isn't quite the act of resistance it was six years ago, but we still question our neighbors who are off to the Arab nations about their sanity, we still eye our fellow travelers with suspicion, we feel the weight or our recent history every time we step through a security gate at an airport. Here are a few reads that acknowledge the recent anniversary of the day that everything changed. How Travelers Have Changed Remember after 9/11 when people were so worried about being harmed in a terrorist attack overseas that they were choosing trips that, in fact, increased their risk . . . of a lousy vacation? They were, for instance, choosing cruises that sailed out of Florida instead of sightseeing trips to Europe... The Enemy Within Over the succeeding years, however, the T.S.A. has become an arrogant [ Full article ] |
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