Why is everyone focusing so intently on airport security? Yes, improving security is always a good thing (beyond just window dressing which, unfortunetely, alot of the new stuff is), but why do think terrorists won't find ANOTHER way to attack us? Do you know how many ships pull into our ports and how poor the security is at the ports? And what about the old strapping a load of dynamite onto a truck and ramming it into a shopping mall -- think of how many people that would take out. And then there's anthrax and other biological/chemical attacks. We haven't gotten very far with the investigation of the anthrax deaths last fall. We seem not be able to see the forest through the trees. We're spending too much time and money focusing on one narrow potential of terrorists' threat. Let's think outside the box, shall we.

So what if the senior man and kid got checked? Better safe than sorry!! Age has nothing to do with it!!!