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♪ ♪ >> there was a prayer for america. i insisted admiral, because he was my partner from ten minutes in to the end, i insisted that he be in the program. >> admiral robert natter. >> these images of our history are now joined for eternity with the actions of three new york city firemen determined to erect a flagstaff and hoist our colors over the rubble that was the world trade center. >> michael brady, bob natter do you have a minute? >> i sure do. >> okay. i got you on speaker phone and we've got some questions with respect to the flag.

>> i was like i, i, i, you know, 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...

To veterans to be buried with it. 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 that night. >> i believe it went missing from ground zero within the first ten days. my guess is someone looked at it and said this is a very small flag in a very big space. let's hang a bigger flag. i don't know what happened to it after that. >> also, when we catch a moment in video that's amazing, we've also seen what happened just bef...

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. the only people in the fire department who really knew where the flag raising happened were the three firefighters. >> and why didn't anyone ask them? >> my guess is they got ...

World financial center and looking at this devastation and the firemen and the relief workers, and there was this flag right below me, and i remember photographing it because it was there. to me, it was part of the scene out the window. but not particularly significant. i don't think i ever connected my flag picture with the flag in that other picture in the sense that i wasn't aware that this was to become an iconic picture. >> seeing this picture like over the years, i almost just assumed that it was right in the middle of the pile. like right in the middle of like right in the center. they ...