The 3-foot-by-5-foot flag – which had disappeared for more than a decade – went on display today at the National Sept. 11 Museum. For starters, this flag was 5 feet by 8 feet. He also analyzed the original photograph. The flag’s journey across the country remains a mystery.
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The U.S. flag raised by firefighters on the site of Ground Zero after the 9/11 terrorist attacks likely has been found and soon will go on display in a museum, 15 years after it disappeared, reports say. Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg said in the statement that the return of the flag is a “timely reminder of the spirit of our heroes and the resolve of a great city and a great nation”.
The yacht’s owners, Shirley Dreifus and the late Spiros E. Kopelakis, were so surprised when first told the flag might have resurfaced that Kopelakis wondered whether the call was a prank, Dreifus said. One of the firefighters in the photo had taken it from the vessel and hoisted the flag above the rubble of the towers.
Mystery solved – 2,585 miles away.
And 15 years later – nearly to that unforgettable day – the men who found it are taking it to its rightful home.
The flag’s absence, he said, “just felt like a hole in the history of this site”. New York City officials tried to track it down, to no avail.
The Everett Police Department, with help from forensic experts, made the assessment after the flag turned up in 2014. Others suggest it was stolen.
“I’m glad that the flag is going to be at the 9/11 museum; that’s where it belongs”, said Thomas E. Franklin, the former Record photographer who took the iconic photograph and is now an assistant professor of journalism at Montclair State University.
Brian arrived at a fire station in Everett, Washington on November 4, 2014, according to HeraldNet.
St. Clair gathered footage from cameras near the firehouse and released police sketches of Brian, based on descriptions from firefighters, to a local newspaper, but that effort did not yield results. He told them it was given to him by a widow of a 9-11 victim.
“At first I doubted that that could possibly be true, it’s definitely such a big deal that it’s hard to imagine the Everett Police Department on the West Coast could be involved at all with having custody of the flag”, said Paxton.
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Every American remembers where they were September 11.
