Could part of the reason have been that Mayor who liked to date Islamofascists or something? She was a regular problem child as I recall.
You asked — Could part of the reason have been that Mayor who liked to date Islamofascists or something? She was a regular problem child as I recall.
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I don’t know about that, but I do know that it’s continued that way, to the present. And the security was incredibly tight after 9/11, when prior to that, everyone was used to wandering right up next to the ships and looking around.
After the attack, they had armed patrols that were never there before and you couldn’t get close to the ships like you could before and there were people really watching the crowds. I got stared at a lot, when I was taking pictures of the ships..., as I always did, before, in the past.
And the small boats that would travel up and down the Willamette River at other times, with no problems — couldn’t do so without an armed Coast Guard escort, going in formation, past the Navy ships...