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Greenlit: America’s 9/11 Flag: Rise from the Ashes, History
America’s 9/11 Flag: Rise from the Ashes – The iconic American flag that was raised by three New York City firefighters at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, and later disappeared, has been recovered in Everett, WA. This documentary chronicles the story of the flag’s recovery and journey back to New York.
The raising of the Ground Zero Flag by three New York City firefighters on September 11th amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center was captured in a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Record (Bergen County, NJ) and circulated widely. The image captured the fortitude of first responders and became a symbol of hope and rebuilding in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
The flag had been taken from the yacht Star of America, owned by Shirley Dreifus and Spiros E. Kopelakis, which was docked at the World Financial Center. Later, a different flag that was believed to have been the original flag, was displayed in Yankee Stadium and assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt on a mission to Afghanistan after 9/11. However, what most people did not realize was that the original flag had actually been lost.
Channel: History
Producer: Left/Right
TX: 11th September 2016
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