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Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
Timeline
Planning
September 11, 2001
Rest of September
October
Beyond October
Victims
Survivors
Foreign casualties
Hijacked airliners
American Airlines Flight 11
United Airlines Flight 175
American Airlines Flight 77
United Airlines Flight 93
Sites of destruction
World Trade Center
The Pentagon
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Effects and aftermath
World political effects
World economic effects
Detentions
Airport security
Closings and cancellations
Audiovisual entertainment
Local health
Response
Global Guardian
Government response
Rescue and recovery effort
Financial assistance
Operation Yellow Ribbon
Memorials and services
Perpetrators
Responsibility
Organizers
Conspiracy theories
Miscellaneous
Communication
Tower collapse
Slogans and terms
Opportunists
Inquiries
U.S. Congressional Inquiry
9/11 Commission Report
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The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States spawned a number of catchphrases, terms, and slogans, many of which continue to be used a half-decade after the event.

Contents 1 Various terms and catchphrases 1.1 Coined by the recovery workers 2 Media slogans 3 US government

• 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.

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

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

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

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:

• "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.

• 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