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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was Pre-9/11 before all the security at the airports and you could literally arrive at the airport and basically walk straight to your plane and board--my husband (a consultant) used to cut it as close as possible.  You can't imagine what a change it was to the country post-9/11. Threat levels and the loss of innocence.  And the anthrax scare on the heals of 9/11 in 2001.

We also had just 'partied like it's 1999' and made it through Y2K unscathed.

Everything felt safe.  No pandemics and mass shootings/school shootings were rare and not a daily occurrence like now.

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The summer of 2000 was literally 14 months after Columbine. It was just a couple of years after Bill Clinton was impeached. There had already been a bombing at the World Trade Center and the USS Cole, so terrorism was enough of a concern that they had already closed Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic (when I first moved here in 1995, you could drive by the White House.) I think you may be looking at the time with some rose colored glasses. [/quote]

No - there was a monumental shift after 9/11. It's all been downhill ever since. 
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How quickly you forget the Florida recount. [/quote]

The Florida recount was definitely the end of innocence for me. That whole "hanging chad" business still gives me nightmares.[/quote]

Maybe it was a big deal if you worked in government. It was all resolved in a month and no one stormed the Capitol. Chad, schmad. 
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