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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]
Thomas E. Franklin (born 1966) is an American photographer for The Bergen Record, best known for his photograph Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, which depicts firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks.
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.
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 9/11 Commission believed that Flight 93's target was either the United States Capitol building or the White House in Washington, D.C. but Khalid Sheikh Mohammed claims that the United States Capitol was the main target. [1] 10:28:25: The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 1 hour and 42 minutes after the impact of Flight 11.
The flag is also a symbol of exploration. It was planted on the moon during the first landing by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969. The flag even has its own day -- each year Americans celebrate flag ...
City workers in a London pub watch news of terrorist attacks on the United States September 11, 2001. Three aircraft crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York and The Pentagon in Washington ...
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.