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this country and its people forever. it s changed our security and our priorities. and most of all, it has changed the day-to-day of everyday life in the united states. what has changed since 9/11? maybe the question is, what hasn t? a 6-year-old girl searched before boarding a plane. a wheelchair becomes a red flag on airplanes, trains and subways, intense scrutiny. backpacks are searched and sniffed. even a trip to the ball game is an exercise in homeland security. homeland security, an entire government bureaucracy that didn t exist a decade ago. an agency that gave us the terror alert level. the federal government was raising its threat level to orange. reporter: before then orange was just a color or a fruit. hardly an assessment of potential threats. there are threats the 9/11 generation is used to. they ve grown up during two wars and they re still just kids. there was 9/11, then london, the shoe bomber, madrid and mumbai. rounding out a decade of anxiety tha ....