New requirements may include full-body exams. Senior flyers, after years of being forced to take off shoes, put everything on a moving belt and walk barefoot through an electronic doorway, must endure more.

If you look suspicious, even if a child or elderly and in a wheelchair, you must stand while the screener waves an electronic magic wand all over your body. Meanwhile, a nearby guard may be tossing every bit of clothing from your carry-on bag into the air, looking for forbidden-to-fly items.

Remember traveling back in the days before smartphones? If a serious amateur picture-taker, you dragged along a big camera bag. In it, along with the Nikon, several extra lenses, a flash unit and a heavy stash of 35mm film rolls.

Now in the digital age, you can do it all with just a Nikon or other compact brand. One very small camera, including flash, tele and wide-angle lenses and virtually unlimited pictures. And in some, you can also shoot video.

Despite being on the no-call list, your travel4seniors.com editor has suddenly been inundated with those hated phone calls at home. Some of the latest, coming in almost daily, promise free cruises.

The recorded pitches are usually spoken by women with American accents. However, the suspicion is that the racket originates in phone centers in Russia, China, Africa and/or Mexico.

Is your old infantry division from the Korean War getting together in New York soon? Are old crewman from your World War 2 ship gathering in Vegas? Will your Marine fighter squadron mates who fought in ‘Nam in the 1960s be gathering in Manhattan in the near future?

Do we have to remind you nor your former barracks buddies or shipmates that you’re not getting any younger? Make a special effort to attend the next reunion to renew old friendships and relive shared memories of your service times together.

Or if so inclined, volunteer to be the organizer and host a military reunion you create in your home town. Many major hotel chains schedule such events, and expert staff can help you with your plans.