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However, when the flag's owner prepared to formally donate the flag, it was discovered that it was not the flag from Ground Zero. There was a size discrepancy: the yacht's flag measured 4 by 6 feet (1.2 m × 1.8 m), while the flag the city had measured 5 by 8 feet (1.5 m × 2.4 m). [3]
Images captured on 9/11 show the devastation caused by terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City in 2001.
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
Rosenthal briefly contemplated attempting to photograph both of the flags at once, but was not in a position to get both flags in the photograph (Pvt. Campbell did capture an image of the first flag coming down while the second flag was going up), so he focused his attention on the group of men preparing to raise the second flag. [5]
On the 22nd anniversary of 9/11, ... —Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell ... Children's Book Series 9/11 Courage and Tributes Aims to Help Teach Kids About Sept. 11, 2001 ...
The FBI has recently made public several photos from the investigation inside the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The images, posted to the FBI's records vault, give a new look ...
Memorial at Fort Liberty in 2019, featuring over 7,000 boots, representing military service members killed since the September 11 attacks. The National 9/11 Flag was made from a tattered remains of a 30-foot (9.1 m) American flag found by recovery workers in the early morning of September 12, 2001.
In Washington, D.C., three American flags fly at half-mast on Columbus Circle outside of Washington Union Station) on Patriot Day 2013.The flags of several U.S. states and territories can be seen also flying at half-mast in the background.