This morning my mom called early and told me there was terrorist plot in London to take out jetliners returning to the U.S.  Great...  What timing.  We leave in a couple of days and now there is a raised threat again.  I remember coming back from Russia after 911.  There were several men of Arab descent sitting around me.  I really do not want to pigeonhole people but have to admit I was nervous.  As we neared New York a couple of them got up and began rummaging through their overhead luggage.  Nothing happened.  We landed safely. 

Another time our team was coming in for a landing in Washington D.C. when the plane suddenly