Slogans and terms derived from the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack


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.

from the recovery workers:

   * 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 pit the excavated foundations of the World Trade Center

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 an
patriotic red, white, and blue motif, sometimes with an explicit graphic of
the American flag.

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)

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