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While I was hiking and skiing and doing fun things in Austria, I spent some time thinking the world's favorite date to hate, September 11th.

Why do people call the event by its date? I guess the only thing for the US to compare it to was Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was easy to say because Hawaii is so far away. "Hawaii was attacked." OOoooh, scary. Especially for us East Coasters. "New York City was attacked." Well now you're hitting close to home.

On a related note, I decided to compare the date by googling. September 11th: 8.5 million hits, December 25th: 1.2 million. Weird.

Anyway, I'll call them the New York City bombings from now on, just to make everyone feel less comfortable. What's in a word, after all?