I'll tell my story about the TSA. Now to fair to them this happened in Dec. of the same year. My father had passed away and had a military service. I was given the flag with three spent rounds in it. At this time there were still armed military with M-16 at the airport. When I placed the flag in the x-ray machine I told them about the spent rounds in the flag. After seeing them on x-ray the TSA wanted to unfold the flag and look.
A young soldier had heard us talking and came over and told TSA they weren't going to touch the flag. He called over his LT. who slid his hand in and felt the rounds. the LT. told them no and he would take full responsibility. Three with M-16 escorted us to our plane and made sure we got on without any trouble.
There we were waiting to board with three armed guards. Don't you think we felt special.
All I could say was thank you and GO ARMY . Dennis