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All 11,000. this is all 11,000 would feel the same way. >> for the photographer who took the picture, tom franklin who is sort of a bittersweet thing, he became famous for taking this image for capturing a moment, and yet, it wasnt his. it was the burgen county record that had the copyright. it was appropriated for all these different uses by all these different people. >> i received more attention than i ever dreamed, and its been overwhelming, and weve had thousands of phone calls at the offic...

Workers, and there was this flag right below me, and i remember photographing it because it was there. to me, it was part of the scene out the window. but not particularly significant. i dont think i ever connected my flag picture with the flag in that other picture in the sense that i wasnt aware that this was to become an iconic picture. >> seeing this picture like over the years, i almost just assumed that it was right in the middle of the pile. like right in the middle of like right in the c...

>> mr. reader was low key so shared the information with us and said, you know, that was an eder flag and proud it was one of our flags, and i think it just completed what that picture was all ant. >> i see the rebuilding starting with that photograph. that was the moment on which these three firefighters speaking for all new yorkers and americans said enough is enough. were going to fight back. i think it gave me all those emotions because its so eerily similar to the flag raising at iwo jima.

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 ...

Fought, fought for freedom and with that freedom our past time has grown into our present time. >> we know who the real heroes are. >> now the world series -- >> i remember seeing that and thinking to myself this was not going to be one of those stories where you could in any way feel a sense of objectivity. you were totally invested in that moment and what was happening watching that flag go back up. whatever boat was leaving, we wanted to be on it. when the roosevelt launched its first air str...

Though its half cut and half burnt. some of it was still damaged but they put it up, even though its still damaged here rising to the top. >> it was in "the herald," in our local newspaper in zimbabwe. >> ive seen that picture everywhere. >> this picture became how we said patriotism post 9/11. >> good job. >> oddly enough, the flag in this famous picture really was a flag that came from the back of a yacht. >> we had our office in the world trade center on the 89th floor of world trade center o...

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...

Continues. this flag, which has flown over seven ships is ready to be returned to the city ♪ >> they brought it back. we had a big ceremony. there are people that still swear that is not the flag. >> somewhere between 9/11 and the yankees stadium ceremony, the flag went missing. >> how can a flag just disappear off the face of the earth? weve heard all kinds of strange stories, like somebody cut it up and was selling pieces of it. but i dont think thats true. >> we had a kickoff event last yea...

>> 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? >> so when the fire department sent the guy from the press office down to get the flag, they assumed it was still on the pole. but it had been gone for more than a week. he had no idea where to look for the flag. the only people in the fire dep...

Id rather not know where it is. if you have the actual flag, i dont know, its the cynic in me. people will want it. you put a price on it. then it becomes something else. >> the flag is sort of like the magical object in a way. its like the torah scroll for the jews. its a book. its just physical. it doesnt have any meaning to it. but everybody embus it with a certain tinkind of -- it has a holiness. a torah scroll, when you pass it, you have to kiss it. when you see it, its like a flag. its an ...