State put on guard as alert raised

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

ST. LOUIS -- Armed guards, metal detectors, concrete barriers. For visitors at the Gateway Arch on Monday, it was a setting that's hardly intimidating, but simply a way of life in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, attacks era.

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