I'm working on discovery responses for a really annoying case I'm handling. One of the requests states:
"If your response to any document request is that the document was lost in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster, please provide a copy of your response to NYSE Information Memo 01-34 listing those documents."
I am sick and tired of people calling the BRUTAL, MURDEROUS, TERRORIST ATTACKS on the World Trade Center a "disaster." Disasters, in my opinion, include earthquakes, floods, and the Clinton administration.
Maybe the strict definition isn't totally inapplicable, but the connotation is all wrong. "Disaster" depersonalizes it, and makes us forget that it was a willful act by a bunch of crazy terrorist scumbags.
Where the heck is my vorpal sword?
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I remember an associate of mine continued to call it an "accident" long after it was public knowledge that these were deliberate attacks.
She probably still says "accident." I'm with you. Calling that attack anything other than what it truly was is a huge understatement.
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