[TomGuy]

I get incensed by hearing newsie-readers, pundits, commentators, politicians, etc., use the term tragedy when the action or event was an atrocity.

Tragedy implies that something bad happened but there really wasn't any way to prevent it. A tornado hitting a building and killing an occupant is a tragedy.

The barbarous murder of 2,700 innocent citizens by terrorists hijacking airplanes and intentionally using them as volatile missiles aimed at buildings is not a tragedy -- that is an atrocity.

[xp38]

You rounded the number....remember 2977 for all the attacks on 9 11 and 2749 at the WTC.