The three firefighters raising the American Flag in the center of the image strike a pose that is reminiscent of the historic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal.

Grinker also covered 9/11, and took one of her most well-known photographs of firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero during this time.

Mr. Brokaw became misty-eyed and had to compose himself on Thursday morning when his producers showed video of firefighters raising a tattered American flag on the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

At first, as an exercise, he tried to substitute the famous photograph of three firefighters raising the flag.

The statue was to have been placed outside Fire Department Headquarters in Brooklyn and was based on a newspaper photograph that showed three white firefighters raising the flag in the World Trade Center debris.

Mr. Wasfy's first sight in London was British firefighters raising money for their counterparts in New York under a flagpole flying the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack.

The statue is to be based on a photograph taken at the collapsed World Trade Center of three firefighters raising an American flag.

The photo of the firefighters raising the flag in the rubble of the World Trade Center signifies that this war will be fought not just by soldiers but by civil society as well.

It was exactly 5:01 p.m. - his digital camera recorded the time - when he made the iconic photograph of three firefighters raising the flag at ground zero.

My office overflows with generosity from around the world: patchwork quilts, a 500-pound bronze sculpture of firefighters raising the flag, 3,000 tulip bulbs, flags, and original artwork, poems and music.