It's not just called "the world" anymore. That's not descriptive enough to explain the environment we live in now.

After terrorists dropped two jetliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, new nomenclature put down roots -- and nearly ubiquitously -- we call what used to be just "the world," the "post-Sept. 11" world.

This new world, which focused so much in the past four and a half years on correcting political miscommunications, bureaucratic breakdowns and government missteps, has a new voice. Or 130 new voices to be exact.

Friday, New York City officials released 130 phone calls to emergency dispatchers for help from inside the World Trade Center towers, though only the dispatchers' voices could be heard because the city deleted those of the callers for public release.

The 27 phone calls released to family members revealed both the callers' emotional, at times prayerful, final minutes and proved that emergency personnel were not prepared to handle the chaos of the situation.

Some were told to stay put, according to a New York Times report. Still others were told that help, which would never arrive, was on the way. This was all standard-operating procedure.

The hope is that the release of these tapes will improve procedures so that as many people as possible can be saved if a tragedy of the magnitude of Sept. 11 were to happen again.

Were the tapes not released, which might have happened had a New York State Supreme Court ruling not granted a New York Times request to release them, the public would never know about the emergency dispatchers' inability in that situation.

For those families who want the closure of hearing their loved ones' voices, the city should release the tapes in their entirety, not just the voices of the dispatchers.

Offering the release of the tapes in their entirety will help the city to improve upon the post-Sept. 11 world.