What happened after the TSA confiscated a World War II hero's Medal of Honor

What happened after the TSA confiscated a World War II hero's Medal of Honor

In the long history of American military service, few stories better capture the tension between reverence for sacrifice and the anxieties of a changing world than the incident involving Maj. Gen. Joseph J. “Joe” Foss at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in 2002. Foss was not just any traveler. He was a World War II Marine Corps fighter ace, a Medal of Honor recipient, a former governor of South Dakota, and the first commissioner of the A…