The Medal of Honor carried by a World War II hero aroused suspicion among airport security forces. "They just kept passing it around there were eight or nine or ten of them who handled it before it was over," he said. "They had found it in my pocket at the airport, and they thought it was suspicious. It's shaped like a star, and they were looking at the metal edges of it, like it was a weapon. I asked for it back, but they kept handing it to each other and inspecting it. I was told to move to a separate area. "I told them -- just turn it over. The engraving on the back explains everything. But they thought they must have something potentially dangerous here. "I told them exactly what it was -- I said, 'That's my Congressional Medal of Honor.ยด" The man relating that story is retired Gen. Joe Foss, 86. His experience last month in Arizona at the international airport in Phoenix -- may be the ultimate symbol of the out-of-kilter times we are going through. We are so afraid of terrorists in our midst that what happened to Foss is not only believable, but perhaps even inevitable: The Congressional Medal of Honor will be taken from its recipient because it looks vaguely ominous. I spoke with Foss because I wanted to hear it from him directly. He told me that he holds no animosity about the incident -- "I'm just as interested in defeating the terrorists as anyone is, I promise you that" and that he is mostly sad that no one knew what the Medal of Honor was. Apparently this 86 year old had some bad intentions to use the MoH for?
American officials deport a Canadian Citizen to Syrian prison cell, cause he looked suspicious Wow, like how stupid can you get! http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/16/arar021216
