Slogans and terms derived from the September 11 attacks

Various terms and catchphrases

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

• "Let's roll" – a quote stated Todd Beamer shortly before his death on Flight 93.

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

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

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

• War on Terrorism stands for the political response from the U. S. Government to the attacks of 9/11 and includes the invasion of Afghanistan, the color-coded national threat condition reporting system, the Patriot Act, and the prison camp in Guantanimo Bay, Cuba.

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.

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", "America under Attack" (CNN)
• "War on Terror" (FOX News)
• "America on Alert", "America under Attack" (MSNBC)
• "The Second Pearl Harbor" (Honolulu Advertiser)

The Onion parodied this phenomenon with their own slogan, "Holy Fucking Shit: Attack On America" and a fake TV schedule parodying the coverage.

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