September eleventh isn't just the day after September tenth. Unlike August eleventh or April eleventh, it is a day unpleasantly blasted into people's memory.
You may sometimes wonder why we call it 9/11. It isn't as though it is so different from Pearl Harbor or the Ides of March. Here in America we don't normally use dates as a name. We don't, for example say, "I can't wait for December 25th!" or, "We don't want another occurrence like December 7th!" In fact, the only other date we use as a name is July 4th. However, we also commonly refer to that as Independence Day instead. .
There are many reasons why we say 9/11. It might be that it came as a complete surprise. On Independence Day we had been rebelling from Great Britain for a while. Thomas Jefferson had spent some time writing the Declaration of Independence. Pearl Harbor happened right in the middle of a huge war, and it marks our entrance into it. Calling 9/11 by its date seems appropriate because it emphasizes that it was out-of-the-blue.
Another reason we call it 9/11 is that the attacks happened in two different places at the same time. We could just call it, "the terrorist attack on the world trade center" or "the terrorist attack against the pentagon". However, this would take away from the magnitude of this outlandish event. Also it would take too long to say the terrorist attacks on the world trade center and on the pentagon every time you talked about it. September eleventh is quicker and easier to say. But 9/11 is even quicker and has a catchy sort of rhythm to it, and it is the number you dial for the police.
It was such a big and surprising thing that it deserves to be set apart somehow. I remember sitting in my homeroosm a bit after homeroom was suppose to have ended, playing magic with my friends. I was glad for a delay in going to classes even though I didn't know why. Then someone came in saying that in Mr.
September 11, 2003 started off as a normal day for President George W. Bush. He woke up for an early morning jog and then headed to an elementary school to speak to a class. Media cameras were all focused on the president as he watched the students performing their reading drills. A message was f...
As a 911 operator/radio dispatcher I use several different forms of technology everyday in order to effectively help our callers. The 911 operators and radio dispatchers are two different positions and require some different types of equipment. On the 911 side of the room, each position has two computers. ... The Vesta and CAD are the same as the 911 equipment. ... Years ago the 911 operator would take the information from the caller by hand, put the information on a card and place it on a conveyor belt which led to the radio dispatcher's room. ...
And also call 911, loosen the patient's clothing around the neck, chest and waist to help circulation and ease his breathing. ... If there is no response, call 911 and return to the victim. ... There are four differences: First, if you are alone with the child give one minute of CPR before calling 911. ... After one minute of repeated cycles call 911 and continue giving breaths and compression. ... Also dont do the stuff you are not sure that is right, and must to call the 911 or an ambulance immediately. ...
Still shaking the effects of the post 911 attack against our country, it is inevitably difficult to ignore the possibility that one of these groups may have struck again. ... Controvery in regards to this tragedy evolve in our minds when we remember 911 and the fact that we are currently at war with the Middle East. ...
Now to be honest, I could actually agree on why Syria might attack because the U.S. isn't really that focused on Syria but if we get involved it might prevent an attack like 911 and if we don't get involved it might cause an attack like 911. ... Well first off if you think about it, does our country really need another repeat of 911? ...
The reactive instinct of the Police will also have to be curtailed, the so called "tyranny of 911" has to be controlled and although some reactive or emergency services will be necessary they have to escape the tyranny of the 911 services in favor of reliance to the community and the new model along with mutual trust.@ (Sparrow chapter 4) It will take some time for the movement from "just the fact=s ma'am" to a more caring police officer who is a social worker, councilor and law enforcer. ...
Brantford is serviced by three 911 lines, 1 local emergency line, 2 taped admin lines and one non-taped admin line. ... A call was received on the 911 line, a man called to report that there was smoke coming from underneath his neighbour's apartment door. ... Calls that come in on either the 911 lines or the local emergency lines are answered in the normal way, "Fire Department, what is the emergency?" ... TTD is built into the CriSys system and the 911 Operators in Sudbury provide access to translator services if required. ...
The event forever known as 911 hit Americans collectively in the gut with the realization that they were not safe anymore, and probably never would feel happy go lucky again. ... " (Sontag 86) The photographs of 911 did all that; they made us more aware that only peace is safe, incensed us to the point of wanting to kill those responsible, and made us aware that bad things definitely can and do happen. ... Not even in the movies were there scenes as grisly and grotesque as the images of 911. ... " (Butler 98) The 911 images haunt us because we know now those lives are all gone. ...
