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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? [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day were coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much. but thats okay -- youre covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car and w...

To the smithsonian, and we were negotiating the terms and just how to put the name of the boat and just simple stuff with our attorney to do it. >> about a year after 9/11, the yacht owners asked for the flag back for a little ceremony on their boat and of course they complied and thought this was a good idea and gave it to them. >> when we got the flag, we were quite stunned it was the wrong flag. this flag could wrap around us and we said this is not a 5-foot flag because this wraps around the...

Saw out of the corner of his eye an american flag on the back of a boat called "the star of america," he went over, climbed up and took the flag and the pole off and fell in line with a friend of his, george johnson. another firefighter, a third firefighter billy eisengrind. >> the crew that passed away told us right away this was our flag. he told us that same day. he said, you know, by the time he got to the boat they had taken the flag, and he went over to ground zero and saw our flag pole an...

What is rudys recollection of this flag? >> this was the second sunday after september 11, at yankee stadium. i remember the event very, very well. yeah, there is joe loda, senator schumer, sunny mundel. >> what happened there in this picture? do you remember that? >> there is only one picture with it, also. >> i mean, do you remember who i gave the flag to after that? i dont. i dont. i dont. >> it seems like its an awful lot of material hes holding. this is a 3 x 5. if you compare the bulk of t...

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...

That we were like those firefighters for that moment. >> we headed down along the waterfront near the marina. i looked and there were a group of firefighters carrying somebody on a stretcher. as they were walking, they were kicking up the debris. so you had these billows of white ash. as they pass me, i saw that it was another firefighter. and they carried him down toward the -- where some yachts and other boats were, and sort of down a gangway. >> this is the image here. >> yeah, yeah, that tow...

>> 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 completed what that picture was about. >> 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 eerie similar. here they are three new york city firefighters, no m...

>> you see the rescue boats there. >> and i went down to photograph them loading the wounded firefighter onto one of the boats, and he survived, thankfully. and he contacted me later asking if i could share some of my photographs so that he could try to piece together what happened to him that day, because he didnt remember. >> on my walk, i kept asking people for film. so i went around and then i was at the sailing club where all the boats are docked. thats when i saw this guy who was apparentl...

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 office for people wanting to buy pictures and p...

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 ...