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>> mr. reader was low key so shared the information with us and said, you know, that was an eder flag and proud it was one of our flags, and i think it just completed what that picture was all about. >> i see the rebuilding starting with that photograph. that was the moment on which these three firefighters speaking for all new yorkers and americans said enough is enough. we're going to fight back. i think it gave me all those emotions because it's so eerily similar to the flag raising at iwo jima. here they are three new york city firefighters, no marines, not soldiers but in a way they were ...

I can't remember his last name. we sent him down there to get the flag. he came back, he had the flag. he said this is the flag. we brought it over to the mayor and they sent it out to aircraft carrier. >> and then we flew it out to the carrier? >> we were -- yes, sir, but we made -- it was a lot of accountability there, obviously. we made sure we knew the name and rank and the identity of the person who would have constant custody of the thing on it's way over. we were afraid it would get lost. >> yeah. >> and somebody would say they just don't know where it is anymore. >> so you think the na...

Respect to the flag. you remember under the stadium before the ceremony that you came over and said hey, they would like you to sign the flag and i said i didn't think it was appropriate for me to sign it. >> right. >> that flag. what -- do you -- the interest is where did the flag come from, how did et get on the "roosevelt." >> yes, sir, i'm trying to -- i'm trying to remember -- >> i remember governor pataki and mayor giuliani signed it. >> i know it came from the mayor's office and we were -- we were under assumption it was that flag that was in that iconic photo. we weren't real sure but ...

Anything you needed was in the building and you could go to lunch, you could go to dinner, you could walk home afterwards and it was very simple. you know, it's -- it's sad every time i think about how nice life was then. >> in new york, this flag had found a new home. it was hoisted by firemen over the world trade center rubble september 11th just hours after the twin towers were destroyed by terrorist, a few blocks away it was raised over city hall. it's thrown over seven military ships including the uss theodore roosevelt which recently returned from duty near afghanistan. >> while the flag...

It's going to be a problem. like, if i was the guy putting the flag up, i would have a problem if i saw a statute and it wasn't me, then it went horribly wrong. >> they were raising the flag simply because they knew it was the right thing to do and we will continue to honor them forever. >> i ignored that day together. i came home and my wife said oh my god, you better see this on every channel. it was like horror. >> hundreds of firefighters petitioned against changing the ethnicities on the statute >> saying it's an alteration of history. >> it was like every news channel. >> i started to re...