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Flags. there is a small one that they put up first and general howl and smith looked up and said not big enough, and in true marine corps fashion he ordered another outfit to raise a flag that would be more visible and the second flag raising joe rose thol took it. it was not planned, staged, guys doing their job and happy to be doing it. it was a lucky shot, but what a great shot and what a great piece of art. >> a single photograph told a story, born of battle it fired the imagination for it e...

Against afghanistan. >> one, two, three, one more real quick. >> everyone who touches the flag has an experience, perhaps they mourn for the souls lost or the innocence well never have again. >> i wish i was in the front and had a rifle right now and could take care of business. >> im told thats why the flag flies on the t.r. it was new york citys way of saying take care of business. [ applause ] >> in the waters near pakistan, barbara sierra, news channel 3.

Tag or the label, you just know that its that size by the weight of it. it will vary a little bit, but not very much. >> and welcome back to the uss roosevelt. back on september 11 on the afternoon of the attacks against america, three firefighters in new york city raised a flag on a pole in the debris of what was the world trade center. it was an emotional photograph that was captured and became famous and compared to the photograph of the raising of the flag on iwo jima. today, those firefight...

This is the flag and leave it alone like that. >> to this day, no one knows what happened to that flag. >> this flag is one of the fire departments. >> smithsonian or something. >> it deserves to be up in the sky. >> i thought it would be in the museum and relics they collected in the museum. >> this is the icon of the sanctuary, this flag, and it is not any excuse for anybody not to try to find the flag. >> by then, rudy giuliani passed the torch to mayor bloomberg. >> and when new york times, ...

Side i remember. its eerie thinking we were just shooting this video and nobody else came out alive after this. >> so what do you see now? >> theres the flagpole. theres no flag there. >> the moment we found that -- >> where is the flag? ♪

Not very much. >> and welcome back to the uss theodore roosevelt on september 11th on the afternoon of the attacks against america, three firefighters in new york city raised a flag on a pole in the debris of what was the world trade center. it was an emotional photograph that was captured and became famous and compared to the photograph of the raising of the flag on another. the new york congressional delegation and they are going to receive that flag back. >> they got the replacement flag. so ...

>> i think we have better control of that than we did nuclear weapons. [ laughter ] >> thats a joke. >> nobody wants to go back and say we dont know where the flag

[ laughter ] >> thats a joke. >> nobody wants to go back and say we dont know where the flag is so i think -- no, we took care of that part of it.

When can i meet the guys? they are like were not using those guys. the guys, the three guys, right? we need the three guys because its real. >> they couldnt have handled themselves any better. they just couldnt have done a better job. they were just three solid guys, who just did a great job. ive never talked to them about it. >> there was kind of something slightly wrong about the whole story. were at this meeting. someone had suggested that there should be more ethnically representative. >> an...

Blow torching all night. >> it does surprise me its not up there. its only five hours later. its a tough guess. my guess is someone saw it up there, maybe it was wrapped up or maybe it wasnt functioning right. 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 office down to get the flag, they assumed it was still on t...