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Side i remember. it's eerie thinking we were just shooting this video and nobody else came out alive after this. >> so what do you see now? >> there's the flagpole. there's no flag there. >> the moment we found that -- >> where is the flag? [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much. but that's okay -- you're covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car and we give you the money

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 two of us, and we're not the thinnest people on earth and it still wraps around us. so we knew righ...

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 and the flag they raised. >> this is our pole. >> the pole was right there. >> they took the pole and ...

What is rudy's 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 don't. i don't. i don't. >> it seems like it's an awful lot of material he's holding. this is a 3 x 5. if you compare the bulk of that material to this, it -- it's definitely a larger flag. you know, we're used to carrying ar...

When can i meet the guys? they are like we're not using those guys. the guys, the three guys, right? we need the three guys because it's real. >> they couldn't have handled themselves any better. they just couldn't have done a better job. they were just three solid guys, who just did a great job. i've never talked to them about it. >> there was kind of something slightly wrong about the whole story. we're at this meeting. someone had suggested that there should be more ethnically representative. >> and they came back to us and said we'll have one hispanic, one black and one white guy so we're ...