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LETTER: Papers, please

In response to your Thursday editorial on Real ID: One of the small irritations that caused me to question the utility of flying was when a TSA supervisor told me in no uncertain terms that the ID I presented — a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary ID, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (first line at the top of the card) — was not a valid ID. It also forced me to question why I was subjecting myself to midnight on-the-water patrols in Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor in the dead of winter and the heat of summer — and doing it on my own dime. So, after 22 years, I hung up my personal flotation device.

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