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Various terms and catchphrases

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

• "Let's roll"—the last known words of Todd Beamer. (According to the 9/11 Commission report, he actually said, "roll it.")

• Threatcon Delta—the highest state of terrorist alert issued by the US Armed Forces

from the recovery workers: September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... Todd Morgan Beamer (November 24, 1968 - September 11, 2001) and a victim of the 9/11 attacks. ... The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. ... The catchphrase lets roll has been used extensively as a term to move and start an activity, attack, mission or project. ...

• Ground Zero—the area of the disaster recovery effort, covering Lower Manhattan around the site of the World Trade Center complex
• the pile—the million-ton pile of rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center towers
• The Bathtub—the excavated foundations of the World Trade Center

9/11 Dictionary Ground zero is the exact location on the ground marking the detonation point of any bomb; in the case of a bomb designed to explode in the air, it refers to the point on the ground directly below the bomb at the moment of detonation. ... The site before it was cleared. ... The Bathtub refers to the underground foundation area at the site of the World Trade Center and accompanying buildings in New York City in the United States of America. ...

• http://www.oilempire.us/dictionary.html (critical analysis of events)

Media slogans

Various slogans and captions appeared on various media to brand coverage of the terrorist attack, its after-effects, and the response. The slogans for United States media appeared on the bottom of the television screen, in a patriotic red, white, and blue motif, sometimes with an explicit graphic of the American flag. This article is about brands in marketing. ... Patriotism is a feeling of love and devotion to ones own homeland (patria, the land of ones fathers). ...

Examples:

• "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" (CNN)
• "War on Terror" (FOX News)
• "America on Alert" (MSNBC)

The Onion parodied this phenomenon with their own slogan, "Holy Fucking Shit: Attack On America" and a fake TV schedule parodying the coverage. The ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although he currently is not recognized in CNNs official history). ... The FOX News Channel is a US cable and satellite news channel. ... MSNBC logo MSNBC (word origin: grammatical blend of MSN and NBC) is a 24-hour news channel in the United States. ... The Onion is a newspaper of parody and satire, published weekly in print and on the Internet. ...

US government

• 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