9/11 Picture Collection (September 2001)

**chris** · #1 ● 09-18-2008, 04:27 PM

Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Bergen Record, taken on September 11, 2001.

The picture shows three firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The official name for the photograph used by the Bergen Record is Ground Zero Spirit. The photo appeared on the Record front page on September 12, 2001.

The paper also put it on the Associated Press wire and it appeared on the covers of several newspapers around the world. It has often been compared to the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal during World War II.

Wiggly · #2 ● 02-11-2010, 04:50 PM

Sorry there is no gore, and I know some of these will be a repost. Hope I put this in the right section.

Hotstuff · #3 ● 02-11-2010, 04:55 PM

niknik · #4 ● 02-11-2010, 04:58 PM

this is why we fight

Kim · #5 ● 02-11-2010, 04:59 PM

I went to Manhattan on vacation and we went over and had a look at 'ground zero'. It was very sad.

emeraldlizards · #6 ● 02-11-2010, 05:21 PM

Never forget.......

big raymie · #7 ● 02-11-2010, 05:22 PM

Damn fine post Wiggly

Hard to think It's coming up for a decade ago that happened

Wiggly · #8 ● 02-11-2010, 05:35 PM

I know it doesn't seem that long ago.

Viking64 · #9 ● 02-11-2010, 06:10 PM

What happened?

Kaiu-chan · #10 ● 02-11-2010, 07:17 PM

The one of the plane flying into the building never ceases to make my stomach drop.

9/11 Picture Collection (September 2001)

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