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Old Sep 25, 2008 | 8:58 pm
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Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
My 84 year-old dad has had both knees replaced and still has a piece of a German bullet in his lung. This qualifies him as a terrorist. He gets a secondary every time he and my mom attempt the terrorist act of visiting their grandkids.

He has become pretty disgusted at the country he came "this close" to giving his life for back in 1944 while flying a fighter plane. Absolutely nobody from a blue-suited, brass-badged screener to Kippie to Skeletor (heck, even Bush II) can possibly understand his anger, nor would I expect them to.

I got pretty torqued just writing this post.
I was going to ask if you got singled out for secondaries a lot, Flies ...
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