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This is printed on calendars now. If you're one of the many people I know whose birthday is Sept. 11, you can now have your birthday on World Trade Center Remembrance Day, which is nice and distancing, like having your birthday on Yom Ha-Shoah.
If your loved one died in the Pentagon or the plane over PA, though, I guess you're just screwed. No remembrance for you.
January 3 2004, 13:47:56 UTC 8 years ago
Of course, what could they put on the calendar? Septmber 11th: 9/11. Or, even sillier--September 11th: September 11th.
Then again, they could keep themselves to federal and religious days. Do they, I wonder, mark December 7th as "Pearl Harbor Remembrace Day"--a wonder brought on by Googling the phrase from your calendar and finding this page, a reply to a post in remembrance of Pearl Harbor. (And how horrible it must be to have one's birthday on a day that will live in infamy--could such a person, or pair of persons, ever turn out normal?)
Mind, your phrase is in the context "Perhaps it's premature or perhaps most, if not all, the U.S. calendar manufacturers will never add it...." Alas.
January 3 2004, 14:14:33 UTC 8 years ago
My birthday is:
the second half of Paul Revere/William Dawes' ride;
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising;
the Branch Davidian thing in Waco, Texas;
the Oklahoma City bombing.
Rebellions all, though from different planets of morality.
Not to imply that mentioning April 19 recalls these events to most people, but it's always felt weird to me.
January 3 2004, 21:31:53 UTC 8 years ago
Which is a bit disconcerting when everyone knows that Patriot's Day is in April.
January 3 2004, 22:43:27 UTC 8 years ago
January 5 2004, 07:29:45 UTC 8 years ago