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One of the guys said hey, lou, is it all right if i get that flag? i said yeah, sure, go get the flag. no idea what he was going to do with it. but he went and got the flag. >> i guess i saw the firefighters starting to walk, you know. its like they were going around and i was going in. by the time i got in, they were coming. and i found a window, and i positioned myself at the window. and i only had like 19 frames yet and no more film. and i was on the phone with robert pledge from contact. and...

To find out where they were taking people, what hospitals they were taking them to. we were looking for three other guys from my unit who were missing. scott nicholson, john mullins and glenn petit. they had just pulled a fire truck out from the rubble. actually drove it out and they cleared a path and we walked into the back. thats where the other photographers were. a fireman motioned that there was something going on on the corner and we looked and the firemen were raising the flag. >> i was ...

On a day when close to 3,000 people were killed in three cities, a lot of myth has come up afterwards what really happened but in fact, we have a record of what happened. never before had so many people had so many cameras in one place to document one event. there were thousands and thousands of pictures taken that day of death, of destruction, of one picture that day emerged that gave us the sort of sense of hope and it was three firemen raising a flag at 3:00 in the afternoon. when americans s...

From, you know, higher ups. ♪ through the night that our flag was still there ♪ >> i also did the event prayer for america. i insisted that the admiral, because he was my partner, from ten minutes in to the end, i insisted that he be in the program. >> admiral robert natter. [ applause ] >> these images of our history are now joined for eternity with the actions of three new york city firemen determined to erect a flagstaff and hoist our colors over the rubble that was the world trade center...

>> it does surprise me its not up there. my guess is someone saw it up there, maybe it was wrapped up and said lets get a better spot for this and put it on a fire truck or something. >> youre saying that flag was still at the site when he went to get it? [ indiscernible ] >> so when the fire department sent the guy from the press >> hes got a flag in his hand. do you think thats the flag? >> congratulations. did you know who is this guy? >> weve spent a long time with people trying to find him....

He was one of my drivers. hes the guy that told me there was going to be a disaster with the statute. he was the one that told me. i didnt get it. so listen, part of the story they are working on the flag rising right from those three guys put the flag up and everything. the guy is saying to me that he has heard and has no idea or the accuracy of it that you asked for the flag, is that the -- >> correct. >> thats correct? tell that story again. >> you came to me, the commissioner came to me and ...

>> it was a flag from a boat that was down at the yacht club. >> its not like they went to a store and bought a flag. >> we were taking a break down at the yacht club. one of the guys said hey, lou, is it all right if i get that flag? i said yeah, sure, go get the flag. no idea what he was going to do with it. but he went and got the flag. >> i guess i saw the firefighters starting to walk, you know. its like they were going around and i was going in. by the time i got in, they were coming. and ...

A lot of firemen over there. the flag. its gone. so its gone the first day. its gone within the first six hours. >> they always assumed that this happened after the picture was published. the picture was first published on the 12th in new jersey, and on the 13th in "the new york post." >> correct. >> so then the question is, who took it and why? >> i cant see anybody climbing up there and grabbing it without somebody saying hey, what are you doing? >> it should be simple to see a flag if its the...

On a day when close to 3,000 people were killed in three cities, a lot of myth has come up afterwards what really happened but in fact, we have a record of what happened. never before had so many people had so many cameras in one place to document one event. there were thousands and thousands of pictures taken that day of death, of destruction, of one picture that day emerged that gave us the sort of sense of hope and it was three firemen raising a flag taken at 5:00 that afternoon. when america...

On a day when close to 3,000 people were killed in three cities, a lot of myth has come up afterwards what really happened but in fact, we have a record of what happened. never before had so many people had so many cameras in one place to document one event. there were thousands and thousands of pictures taken that day of death, of destruction, of one picture that day emerged that gave us the sort of sense of hope and it was three firemen raising a flag taken at 5:00 that afternoon. when america...