Thanks davidosborne. Here’s something that should stop:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/stamps/eidstamp.asp
“The EID postage stamp was introduced by the United States Postal Service (at the then-current 34-cent rate) as part of its Holiday Celebrations Series on 1 September 2001, just ten days before the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The EID stamp has since been reissued at updated first-class postage rates in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, and most recently in September 2009.”
Yesterday, the day before the anniversary of 9/11, was also EID, if I heard correctly. The Empire State Building in New York, the tallest building in the city since the World Trade Center towers came down, inexplicably decided to honor EID by lighting its tower in green. They showed the same lack of sensitivity as the people trying to build the mega-mosque at Ground Zero! Hardly surprising, because the owner of the building is friendly with Bloomberg.