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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 10:38 pm
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Pesky Monkey
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Originally Posted by mahohmei
Alas, I'm too young to vividly remember...

How were people with wheelchairs or metal prosthetic body parts/implants screened before 9/11? HHMD?
They were pawed and scanned with hand held metal detectors, as was my mother shortly before her death by cancer. Planes fell from the skies every day, thus requiring strip searches.
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