Naming 9/11: Just another date on the calender

The name "9/11" is not adequate.

The naming of it "9/11" so soon after always seemed to me like they wanted people to forget about it. It doesn't say anything to remind us of the incredible events and tragedies, it describes what day they happened on. "9/11", like it was just another date on the calender. Maybe they should have called it simply "Tuesday" or, more genuinely, that 'Dark Tuesday'.

We don't call the battle of the Somme "6/5"
We don't call the holocaust "3/30"
We don't call the Mount St Helens eruption "5/25"

So why the eagerness to keep the Twin Towers collapse vague in people's memory?

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