A World in Pictures - Adrian Wyllie

Raising of the Flag at Ground Zero

    Even as forces struggled to tear our nation apart, on that fateful day of September 11, 2001, The terrorist attack that strove to split us apart did the exact opposite: It pushed us together. When the Towers fell, the city of New York lost all hope. Hundreds perished in the shadows of that terror attack. But several things happened soon afterwards. In the mountainous rubble, three firefighters raised the U.S. Flag. This photograph became instantly famous, for it inspired courage into our breaking nation. Even now we look back, but instead of seeing the twisted heap of rubble that was the fallen heap of rubble that was the World Trade Center, we see this image. it inspires hope.
   It says, The United States of America will never fall, it will never be pushed, it will never be split. Like the flag and Motto of the United States of America so clearly say, "E Pluribus Unum." Out of many, One. One nation, one flag, and none left behind. As it will always be, the United States will stand united, and will never fall.