All 5 Uses of
9/11
in
Nineteen Minutes
- It was why these schools, post-9/11, had teachers wearing ID all the time and doors locked during the day-the enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.
Chpt 19/11 = September 11, 2001; when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
- A thought occurred to him: that ticker tape hadn't existed until 9/11-until people were so scared that they needed to know, without any delay, the facts of the world they inhabited.
Chpt 1
- Part of going back to normal meant erasing the boundaries of what was abnormal, and within a few months, the way Alex had felt on 9/11 was slowly forgotten, like a tide washing out a message she'd once scrawled on the sand.
Chpt 1
- Life was a series of ifs-a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.
Chpt 2
- Is it really fair to compare bullying to the trauma seen by war veterans in Iraq, or survivors from 9/11?
Chpt 2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(9/11) September 11, 2001; when Al Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs to destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and to attack the Pentagon; about 3,000 innocents (mostly civilians) were killed
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, 9/11 can refer to any September 11th.