Mike Kelly
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The photographs of the 9-11 attacks are still seared in our memories 25 years later.
There's a picture of a plane smashing into the towers.
There's a picture of a firefighter rescuing a man out of the rubble.
A picture of a stockbroker covered in ash.
But one picture stands out over these years and still resonates with us today.
And that's a picture of three firefighters, their faces streaked in sweat, their uniforms dusty.
They're raising an American flag over the rubble.
I'm Mike Kelly for The Excerpt.
Tom Franklin, a photographer at that time with the Bergen Record in New Jersey, took that photograph.
And Tom is here with us today to talk about taking that photograph and how it resonates all these years later.
Hi, Tom.
It's good to see you again.
were colleagues back then.
We were actually together here on the site very briefly.
We crossed the Hudson River separately, of course.
What were you thinking as you walked into that rubble pile that day?
Try to take me back to your thoughts as you saw it the first time.
where we met.
Yeah, same thing.
And
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