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All 11,000. this is all 11,000 would feel the same way. >> for the photographer who took 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 that had the copyright. it was appropriated for all these different uses by all these different people. >> i received more attention than i ever dreamed, and it's been overwhelming, and we've had thousands of phone calls at the office for people wanting to buy pictures and publications and billboards and people want to make tape...

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 could have been putting that up in front of me and i don't think it would have dawned ...

>> 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 ant. >> 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.

To find out where they were taking people, what hospitals they were taking them to. we were looking for three other guys from my unit who were missing. scott nicholson, john mullins and glenn petit. they had just pulled a fire truck out from the rubble. actually drove it out and they cleared a path and we walked into the back. that's where the other photographers were. a fireman motioned that there was something going on on the corner and we looked and the firemen were raising the flag. >> i was right over them, and i don't think the firefighters were aware of me. they were just doing what the...

Fought, fought for freedom and with that freedom our past time has grown into our present time. >> we know who the real heroes are. >> now the world series -- >> i remember seeing that and thinking to myself this was not going to be one of those stories where you could in any way feel a sense of objectivity. you were totally invested in that moment and what was happening watching that flag go back up. whatever boat was leaving, we wanted to be on it. when the roosevelt launched it's first air strikes, the flag from ground zero at the world trade center disaster flapped in the foreground. it's ...