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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 1703788, member: 19250&quot;]A 2001 ASE recovered from &quot;Ground Zero&quot; The New York World Trade Center. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Since 2001 in the United States, especially in the media, &quot;Ground Zero&quot; is generally understood to mean the site of the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/World_Trade_Center" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/World_Trade_Center">World Trade Center</a>, which was destroyed in the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/September_11_attacks" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/September_11_attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. The phrase was being applied to the World Trade Center site within hours after the towers collapsed. It appears that the first use of the term on a mainstream North American media outlet in reference to the September 11 attacks was at approximately 11:55 am when an eye witness who claimed to be a Fox News freelancer referred twice to ground zero. He may also have been the first person to suggest the cause of the collapse of the towers was due to &quot;structural failure due to fires&quot;. At 4:41 p.m., in an interview with <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Peter_Jennings" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Peter_Jennings">Peter Jennings</a> on <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/ABC_News" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/ABC_News">ABC News</a>, attorney and survivor of the attacks Tom Humphreys (spelled &quot;Humphries&quot; on air) said, in reference to the collapse of the South Tower, that</p><p>[TABLE=&quot;class: cquote&quot;]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD=&quot;width: 20, align: left&quot;]“[/TD]</p><p>[TD]The tragedy is that the police and fire personnel that tried to help people out of that building were right at Ground Zero when that happened...[/TD]</p><p>[TD=&quot;width: 20, align: right&quot;]”[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[/TABLE]</p><p>The next known reference occurred at 7:47 p.m. (<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone">EDT</a>) on that day, when <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/CBS_News" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/CBS_News">CBS News</a> reporter <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Jim_Axelrod" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Jim_Axelrod">Jim Axelrod</a> said:</p><p>[TABLE=&quot;class: cquote&quot;]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD=&quot;width: 20, align: left&quot;]“[/TD]</p><p>[TD]Less than four miles behind me is where the Twin Towers stood this morning. But not tonight. Ground Zero, as it&#039;s being described, in today&#039;s terrorist attacks that have sent aftershocks rippling across the country.[/TD]</p><p>[TD=&quot;width: 20, align: right&quot;]”[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[/TABLE]</p><p>The term &quot;Ground Zero&quot; was simultaneously used by <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/NBC_News" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/NBC_News">NBC News</a> reporter Rehema Ellis when her own report was aired on NBC at around the same time as Jim Axelrod&#039;s report on <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/CBS_News" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/CBS_News">CBS News</a>. She said:</p><p>[TABLE=&quot;class: cquote&quot;]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD=&quot;width: 20, align: left&quot;]“[/TD]</p><p>[TD]We&#039;re now just a block away from the World Trade Center and the closer we get to &quot;ground zero&quot; the harder it is to breathe and to see.[/TD]</p><p>[TD=&quot;width: 20, align: right&quot;]”[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[/TABLE]</p><p>Rescue workers also used the phrase &quot;The Pile&quot;, referring to the pile of rubble that was left after the buildings collapsed.Even years later, the term &quot;Ground zero&quot; has become a shorthand for the site, even after construction on the new <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center">One World Trade Center</a> and the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/National_September_11_Memorial_%26_Museum" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/National_September_11_Memorial_%26_Museum">National September 11 Memorial &amp; Museum</a> were well underway. In advance of the 10th anniversary of the attacks, New York City mayor <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg">Michael Bloomberg</a> urged that the &quot;Ground zero&quot; moniker be retired, saying, &quot;... the time has come to call those 16 acres what they are: The World Trade Center and the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH]260462.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]260463.vB[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; From: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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