I curse the zealousness of the TSA. Every time they pat down a child, an elderly person with a cane, a cancer survivor or war veteran with a prosthesis, they spit on the graves of the hundreds of thousands - or is it millions - of Americans who have sacrificed their lives over the last 200 years to defend American freedoms. And I am astonished at the shortsighted lack of memory on the part of various paranoid nincompoops who are willing to turn this country into a new version of Nazi Germany or the Communist Soviet Union out of cowardice and fear.

Thank heaven we have a few people in this country who still remember that we have a Constitution and why it was adopted. Thank heaven that at least a few people in this country still remember that it is freedom, not "safety" or "security", that made the United States the greatest country on Earth at one time, and can do so again.

Thank heaven there are still a few people who remember that 9/11 didn't change a damn thing - WE changed it, when we gave in, wholesale, to the fear that the perpetrators of 9/11 instilled in us as a nation.

But if we can find our spines in time, perhaps we can change it back.