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It's gone. so it's gone the first day. it's 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 can't 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 it's there. stars, stripes. it would stick out if it's there. somewhere in new york is something that matters. it's like when that guy found t...

Oddly enough, pieces of that flag have been cut off and sent to veterans to be buried with them. i'm glad they stopped it and saved the flag. that's much less objectionable than selling it. >> i just think somebody has it and they're 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 didn't want to give that particular flag up. >> i believe it went missing from ground zero within th...

>> it was a flag from a boat that was down at the yacht club. >> it's 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. it's like they were going around and i was going in. by the time i got in, they were coming. and i found a window, and i positioned myself at the window. and i only had like 19 frames left and no...

A lot of firemen over there. the flag. it's gone. so it's gone the first day. it's 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 can't 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 it's there. stars, stripes. it would stick out if it's there. somewhere in new york is

They put it up, even though it's still damaged here rising to the top. >> it was in the "herold" the local newspaper. >> 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 world trade center. our apartment faced the world trade center so we actually could se...