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Though it's half cut and half burnt. some of it was still damaged but they put it up, even though it's still damaged here rising to the top. >> it was in "the herald," in our local newspaper in zimbabwe. >> i've 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 away from the ...

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 saw this image, everything from coffee cups to statutes to tattoos, to ticket stubs, it was the most ...

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? we've heard all kinds of strange stories, like somebody cut it up and was selling pieces of it. but i don't think that's true. >> we had a kickoff event last year in front of the star spangled banner at the smithsonian. oddly enough, pieces of that flag have...

>> it does surprise me it's not up there. my guess is someone saw it up there, maybe it was wrapped up and said let's get a better spot for this and put it on a fire truck or something. >> you're 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 department who really knew where the flag raising happened were the three firefighters. >> and why d...

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. you 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 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, it's like a flag. it's an inanimate object that because of our culture, because of who we are, becomes something grea...