The flag raised by NY firefighters at the 9/11 site in Lower Manhattan will be part of a new exhibit to be unveiled this week.
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Joe Daniels, president of the 9/11 Memorial, said: “In the darkest hours of 9/11, when our country was at risk of losing all hope, the raising of this American flag by our first responders helped reaffirm that the nation would endure, would recover and rebuild”.
An American flag hoisted at ground zero hours after the September 11 terror attacks has taken its place at the World Trade Center complex after disappearing for more than a decade.
The lost U.S. flag raised over the rubble of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks has been found after 15 years.
A documentary about the flag’s recovery airs Sunday on History.
The flag has had an unusual and mysterious journey across the US.
Hours after the attacks, firefighters with the Fire Department of NY spotted a flag onboard the Star of America, a yacht docked at the marina near the World Trade Center.
Officials from the 9/11 Memorial Museum-where the artifact will be housed-praised the flag’s return regardless. He left no identification, however, and police in Everett were unable to track him down, said Det. After disappearing for more than a decade the 3-foot-by 5-foot flag was donated to the museum after it was turned in two years ago by an as-yet-unidentified man at a firehouse in Everett, Wash.
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Forensic materials scientist Bill Schneck began taking samples of dust particles from the flag to compare with dust particles from Ground Zero in NY.
