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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 there. stars, stripes. it would stick out ...

Oddly enough, pieces of that flag have been cut off and sent to veterans to be buried with them. im glad they stopped it and saved the flag. thats much less objectionable than selling it. >> i just think somebody has it and theyre not coming forward. >> after that picture was taken, the flag could have been taken down off that pole that night and somebody stuck it in their shirt and they threw another one up there, because they wanted to save it or memorialize it or for whatever reason, they did...

>> 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...

They put it up, even though its still damaged here rising to the top. >> it was in the "herold" the local newspaper. >> 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 one, which was the first building hit. we lived on chambers street about two blocks aw...

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 who had the copyright, apropertiuated for all these different uses for all these different people. >> i received more attention than i ever dreamed, and its been overwhelming, and weve had thousands of tophone calls at t office for people want to buy pictures and publications and billboards and people want to make tapi...

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...

How big does that flag look to you? >> if you look at the proportions of the gentlemans arm in the picture to the flag to the field alone, its larger than a 3 x 5. i would say the smallest it would be would be a 5 x 8. >> yeah, thats not the same flag. it doesnt look like it. >> you know, its -- at the time it was not a big event. it was, you know, lets get the flag and make sure its out on the ships that are doing the strikes. >> that flag brought up emotion that is very difficult to describe. ...

Hugging monica lewinsky five years later. its this delusion you tell yourself, i never throw away a negative. each now i cant delete any pictures off of my phone, which is terrible. sorry, i dont remember people grabbing a flag or something like that. >> thats where the boats are on this side. where did they raise the flag? i dont know. >> here in front of this building -- >> yeah. thats where i spent the night, in this building. >> thats the other flagpole from the boat. >> i didnt ever realize...

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...