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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 wasn't 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 it's been overwhelming, and we've had thousands of tophone calls at t office for people want to buy pictures and publications and billboards and people want to make tapistries. it makes me feel uncomfortable. i appreciate the recognition but it's been a little uncom...

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 americans saw this image, they began to plaster it on everything, from coffee cups to statues to tattoos to...

How big does that flag look to you? >> if you look at the proportions of the gentleman's arm in the picture to the flag to the field alone, it's larger than a 3 x 5. i would say the smallest it would be would be a 5 x 8. >> yeah, that's not the same flag. it doesn't look like it. >> you know, it's -- at the time it was not a big event. it was, you know, let's get the flag and make sure it's out on the ships that are doing the strikes. >> that flag brought up emotion that is very difficult to describe. i had never seen so many grown men and women cry just by touching a piece of fabric, and of c...

Hugging monica lewinsky five years later. it's this delusion you tell yourself, i never throw away a negative. each now i can't delete any pictures off of 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 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...

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 americans saw this image, they began to plaster it on everything, from coffee cups to statues to tattoos to...