Han wrote:

Entering my place of work (VA Hospital) requires me to show ID and
send my briefcase or backpack through the Xray machine. If I leave
my Swiss Army-type knife in there I get a hard time. As an employee
I go through a minimally active magnetometer, so my pants pocket is
the obvious alternative. It's nonsense, because I have many sharp or
otherwise potentially hazardous things in my lab, but them's the
rules.

Meh!

In January, 2002 (right after 9-11) a senior citizen was discovered trying
to sneak a "Ninja Star" weapon aboard a flight leaving Sky Harbor airport in
Phoenix. Pulled aside and questioned, it was discovered he was previously
responsible for bringing down 34 aircraft with the loss of life of everybody
aboard those planes!

His name was Joe Foss.

Foss was the former governor of South Dakota, retired brigadier general in
the South Dakota National Guard, for twenty-three years the host of the TV
program "The American Sportsman," former executive director of the American
Football League, and even graced the cover of Time Magazine.

He had just left a board of directors meeting of the National Rifle
Association and was on his way to the United States Military Academy at West
Point to deliver a guest lecture on patriotism.

The "Ninja Star" gizmo? It was the Medal of Honor given him by Franklin
Roosevelt for downing 23 Japanese planes during the battle of Guadalcanal.

When told he could continue his flight if he discarded this potential weapon
("In the bucket, pops!") he is reported to have said: "You've done ****ed
with the wrong Marine, sonny!"

The only thing that could have made this episode more ironic would have been
to have it happen at Joe's home airport in Sioux Falls. The name of the
airport is "Joe Foss Field."

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The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the

CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
to
CAPTAIN JOSEPH J. FOSS
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RESERVE

for service as set forth in the following CITATION:

For outstanding heroism and courage above and beyond the call of duty as
Executive Officer of a Marine Fighting Squadron, at Guadalcanal, Solomon
Islands. Engaging in almost daily combat with the enemy from October 9 to
November 19, 1942, Captain Foss personally shot down twenty-three Japanese
planes and damaged others so severely that their destruction was extremely
probable...

Captain Foss entered the service from South Dakota.

/S/ Franklin D. Roosevelt