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* September 11. As you've seen above, the September 11th attacks in 2001 left a lot of ill tastes in a lot of media. Even having a birthday on that day is considered a downer (cf. [[wikipedia:Ludacris|Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges]]).
** [[It Got Worse|It gets worse.]] Americans actually ''backed'' (re: funded, armed, and trained) some of the people who would eventually become the Taliban against the Soviet Union when they were fighting in Afghanistan. ''Yeah''.
** Also that same day, a blue-ribbon panel released the final and definitive report, roughly an hour earlier, concerning another massive sneak attack on the USA: Pearl Harbor.