Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I remember reading about airliners being blown up: Air India Flight 182, Pan Am 103, etc. etc. Red Brigade, PFLP, IRA, etc. etc. So many planes were hijacked, blown up, or even shot down (Korean Air by the Soviets). And yet we didn't start cowering in terror like we do today. Here's a quick link; just read it and see how safe we've been since the late 90s: http://www.historycentral.com/Terrorhistory.html We were safe without any groping or x-raying or taking off our shoes and throwing away our bottles of baby's milk.

What happened? How did we become a nation of wimps??