pgens Wrote:
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > So it's bad to name a cafe after the location of
> a
> > terrorist attack that killed 3,000 Americans
> but
> > it was okay to name the place after the nuking
> of
> > Hiroshima, which killed tens of thousands of
> > Japanese civilians, including women and
> children
> > who had their flesh burned away or died of
> > radiation poisoning? Maybe they should have
> > skipped the name from the start.
>
> Research... it was renamed FROM Ground Zero Cafe
> after 9/11. It got its name from cold-war era as
> a semi-joke that it would be a target for nukes by
> the USSR, being inside the Pentagon and all.
I probably wasn't clear. I was asking a rhetorical question. I realize that the Pentagon thought it was best to change the name of the cafe from Ground Zero after 9/11, but why did they name it Ground Zero in the first place when the term his historically linked to Hiroshima?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero#History_of_term
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