After reading the the title of this topic I was pleased to see that the body of the post will not require me to launch into a tirade about one of my biggest pet peaves. The 4th of July is meaningless. The date is simply an incidental to what is particularly important about what we are observing. We are observing Independence Day. An occurance that happened to fall on a particular day not a particular day that happened to contain an occurance. Though difference may seem small to others, it is the driving notion behind never referring to the Terrorist Attacks on the WTC as 9/11.
Props to Jag!
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"Besides, the atheist non-god is not going to send me to non-hell for my lapse of non-faith if it should turn out that I am mistaken." - John C. Wright
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