My sister & World Trade Center behind her 

I was just watching Anderson Cooper on CNN and the newly released video of 2 highjackers going through the airport security on 9/11.  It caused me to remember the entire awful day and that day's events that I watched live on TV, at work.  I dug out my personal snap shots from visits to NYC.  I have green Post-it flags sticking out of the pages.  I had forgotten that I had done that.  You put things in the buffet and they tend to be archived.  The flags indicate photos containing the World Trade Center. 

Above is a picture of my sister and was taken by me during the second of 2 trips to New York City.  Our brother lived in Brooklyn.  I took my old Olympus 35mm camera and took photos, many photos that happened to include the WTC.  I watched the replaying of the highjackers going through the security and the machines flashing alarms and then the guys allowed to pass.  That does not surprise me at all.  That shouldn't surprise anyone. 

I witnessed the very same thing before 9/11 almost every time I flew somewhere.  I remember one specific time very clearly to this day.  It was before 9/11 and at Omaha's Epply Airfield.  A women went through the metal detector.  It went off. A female security guard asked her to step to the side to be scanned a second time.  The lady walked off as the overwhelmed security guard rolled her eyes and went back to work.  I was so alarmed that I followed the women to make sure she was not going to get on my flight (instinct is in self preservation).  She did not.  I was relieved. I really wonder if all the checking at the airport is a feel good exercise.  If someone really wanted to...