# Name for Sept. 11 events **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214 "2001-10-03T17:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/21 "2001-10-06T16:25:49Z")
What about “Quadrkazee?” Combination of quad (four) and kamikazee? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/22 "2001-10-06T17:28:52Z")
I just call it Tuesday. For example: Since _Tuesday_ airport security has been increased tremendously. When ever I think of _Tuesday_ I get sad and angry. The last time I saw the WTC was on _Tuesday_. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/23 "2001-10-06T17:37:12Z")
It pisses me off when I hear folks call it anything containing the words “tragedy” or “disaster”. To me, those words imply that it was somehow unavoidable, like a hurricane, like something bad that happened without reason. There WAS a reason, it was deliberate, and we should be openly pissed about it, not sit back and wring our hands about “tragedy.” I vote for just “September 11th”. Today, when you say “Pearl Harbor”, people instinctively think about the attack, not the base. I don’t think that referring to “the World Trade Centers” will get the same connotation, but the date is indelibly carved on many of our memories. September 11th. Need we say more. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/24 "2001-10-07T03:43:36Z")
The one reason I feel strongly against using “September 11th” in the history books is those poor people whose birthdays are on 9/11. It’s a petty little reason, but if anything ever happened on 3/24, God forbid, I’d be some damn pissed if the country was walking around cursing the day I was born. Unfortunately, I think it’s gonna be called September 11th, following the September 11th fund and all that… Wow, what an incoherent post!!! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/25 "2001-10-07T06:35:10Z")
How about calling it “Clintons Legacy”? 😛 Seriously, I think it will go down as the “Attack on America” for it really is the first time since the Civil War that an attack of any magnitude took place inside America. ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/26 "2001-10-15T16:19:04Z")
Locally I know that the attacks have taken to being called “the events”. Man, that ticks me off. The murder of nearly 6000 innocents in broad daylight merits more than “event”. I think that history will call it “September 11”. I think we, the minions of irony, should call it what it was: “World Culture of Peace Day” [http://www.worldpeace.org/culture.html](http://www.worldpeace.org/culture.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/27 "2001-10-15T20:34:00Z")
I thought I heard it mentioned that 9/11 will be officially known as “National Rememberance Day”, I believe. However, I agree words cannot say enough about the grand scale of total deaths and destruction - in multiple places, no less. - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/28 "2001-10-15T23:08:53Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **JohnT** _ > > How about calling it “Clintons Legacy”? 😛 Yeah, that was called for. I vote for Black Tuesday. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/29 "2001-10-15T23:15:59Z")
Something ironic I found flipping through _Chase’s Calendar of Events_ for 2001, under September 11: > [@](#): > > **NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS DAY.** Sept. 11. Don’t read,listen to or watch the news today and you’ll feel better tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/30 "2001-10-15T23:41:43Z")
Damn, **red\_dragon** beat me to it. I vote for ‘The Atrocity’. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/31 "2001-10-16T03:47:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by **JohnT** _ > > > > How about calling it “Clintons Legacy”? 😛 > > Yeah, that was called for. > > I vote for Black Tuesday. > > Esprix \*\* Didn’t you know? The militant islamic fundamentalists loved us and Isreal until 1993. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/32 "2001-10-25T05:42:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*Something ironic I found flipping through _Chase’s Calendar of Events_ for 2001, under September 11: > > > [@](#): > > > > **NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS DAY.** Sept. 11. Don’t read,listen to or watch the news today and you’ll feel better tonight. > > \*\* Uh…is that for real? That was composed before 9/11/01? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/33 "2001-10-25T16:23:55Z")
A year or so before, **Rilchiam**. We just got in our 2002 _Chase’s_, which for those of you who may not know is a standard reference work, a book-of-days kind of thing that lists all sorts of anniversaries, holidays, special events, famous people’s birthdays, etc. It’s not the kind of thing most people would buy for themselves, but libraries depend upon it heavily when some body calls in to ask something like “Who famous was born on October 25?” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-sept-11-events/85214/34 "2001-10-25T19:03:55Z")
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