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>> this is the image here. >> yeah, yeah, that tower flag. >> 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 didn't 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. that's when i saw this guy who was apparently freelancing for "the new york times."...

I'd rather not know where it is. if you have the actual flag, i don't know, it's the cynic in me. people will want it. they put a price on it. then it becomes something else. >> the flag is sort of like the magical object in a way. it's like the torah scroll for the jews. it's a book. it's just physical. it doesn't have any meaning to it. but everybody embus it, it has a holiness. a torah scroll, when you pass it, you have to kiss it. when you see it, it's like a flag. it's an inanimate object that because of our culture, because of who we are, becomes something greater. >> let's just consider...

My recollection is that he was on the jersey side. >> on the jersey side. >> and used a tell la photo lens to capture that image. >> a photographer from the paper. >> yes, yes. >> that's possible. >> there is a story about that image. it was taken by tom franklin who was a photographer for the record who happened to be there, i guess he was actually down to i think 30 frames left in his camera but there at that moment when they hoisted the flag and he shot it. >> tom's photo comes in and rich says you got to see this, you got to see this. >> that popped out because of the flag, all the picture...

For now, our mission is complete but the fight against terrorism continues. this flag, which has flown over seven ships is ready to be returned to the city of new york. its mission is complete, too. ♪ >> they brought it back. we had a big ceremony. we reraised that flag on the flagpole. 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? we've heard all kinds of strange stories, like somebody cut it up and was selling pieces of it. but i don't thi...

Even now i can't bleat any pictures i shoot with my phone, which is terrible. sorry, i don't remember people grabbing a flag or something like that. >> that's where the boats are on this side. where did they raise the flag? i don't know. >> here in front of this building -- >> yeah. that's where i spent the night, in this building. >> that's the flagpole. >> that's the other flagpole from the boat. >> i didn't ever realize that was a flagpole. >> it's interesting these nurses were there. >> people came to help, i guess. >> so there were a lot of people standing around. >> totally. inside this ...