A wakeup call to properly profile airport travelers, a call to stop doing body cavity searches on Japanese grandmothers, a call to stop being PC about finding terrorists.
The children that witnessed this and experienced the direct effects of terrorism will grow up to be stronger, more decisive people than the wimpy leaders that we now have running law enforcement around this country. Unless some gaia worshipping psychiatrist gets a hold of them to give them a good victim-complex for the rest of their lives.
/cynical_hat_off_now