An entire generation of Americans has grown up taking off their shoes at airport security, walking past concrete barriers outside government buildings, and living with a vast national security and surveillance apparatus built to prevent another terrorist attack.
Many of them cannot remember the reason those systems are in place, or a time without the Department of Homeland Security or the Transportation Security Administration.
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