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Various terms and catchphrases

• Nine-eleven (or 9/11 in the US date notation for September 11th)

• "Let's roll" – supposedly uttered by Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer shortly before he and fellow passengers apparently rushed the cockpit.

• Threatcon Delta – the highest state of terrorist alert issued by the U.S. Armed Forces

• WTC jumper – reference to people leaping from the towers.

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Coined by the recovery workers

• The Bathtub – the excavated foundations of the World Trade Center
• The Pile – the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center

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Media slogans

Various slogans and captions were employed by media outlets to brand coverage of the September 11th terrorist attack, its after effects, and the U.S. government response. The slogans for American media were typically positioned on the bottom third of television broadcasts, or as banners across the top of newspaper pages. Designs typically incorporated a patriotic red, white, and blue motif, along with an explicit graphic of the American flag. Examples include: Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

• "America Attacked", "A Nation United" (ABC)
• "Attack on America", "A Nation Challenged", "Day of Terror", "Portraits of Grief" (The New York Times)
• "America's New War", "War Against Terror", "America under Attack" (CNN)
• "War on Terror" (FOX News)
• "America on Alert", "America under Attack" (MSNBC)
• "The Second Pearl Harbor" (Honolulu Advertiser)
• "War On America" (The Daily Telegraph)
• The Onion parodied this phenomenon with their own slogan, "Holy Fucking Shit: Attack On America" and a fake TV schedule parodying the coverage.

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US government

• War on Terrorism (also Global War on Terror) refers to the political response from the U. S. Government to the attacks of 9/11 and includes the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the color-coded national threat condition reporting system, the Patriot Act, and the prison camp in Guantànamo Bay, Cuba.
• Enduring Freedom – name for US-led military response
• Infinite Justice – original name for US-led military response, dropped after religious overtones were pointed out by a reporter at a press briefing