About a year after 9/11 I worked at the headquarters for one of our largest retailers. The main hallway through the complex that everyone had to pass through wa

About a year after 9/11 I worked at the headquarters for one of our largest retailers. The main hallway through the complex that everyone had to pass through was decorated in flags and other patriotic displays wall to wall, floor to ceiling. But we also received constant emails from the company telling us to contact our members of Congress to prevent customs from knowing where we get our goods such as ceiling fans. The worry was that a spy in customs might give that information to our competitors. Seemed weird to have so many visible displays of "Country First" while at the same time placing paranoia about corporate spies in the government above the legitimate need for customs to know where the goods we were receiving were coming from.