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Not very much. >> and welcome back to the uss theodore roosevelt on september 11th on the afternoon of the attacks against america, three firefighters in new york city raised a flag on a pole in the debris of what was the world trade center. it was an emotional photograph that was captured and became famous and compared to the photograph of the raising of the flag on another. the new york congressional delegation and they are going to receive that flag back. >> they got the replacement flag. so the flag that went all over was not that flag. >> i will never forget the smoky odor as the flag was...

>> i think we have better control of that than we did nuclear weapons. [ laughter ] >> that's a joke. >> nobody wants to go back and say we don't know where the flag

[ laughter ] >> that's a joke. >> nobody wants to go back and say we don't know where the flag is so i think -- no, we took care of that part of it.

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 ...

Blow torching all night. >> it does surprise me it's not up there. it's only five hours later. it's a tough guess. my guess is someone saw it up there, maybe it was wrapped up or maybe it wasn't functioning right. 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? [ indiscernible ] >> 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....