How 9/11 shaped Gen Z’s relationship with a government it never knew before the attacks

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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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