fell in line with a friend of his, george johnson, another firefighter, and a third firefighter billy izengrind. >> the crew that passed away told us right away this was our flag. he told us that same day. he said, you know, by the time he got to the boat they had taken the flag, and he went over to ground zero and saw our flag pole and the flag they raised. >> this is our pole. >> the pole was right there. >> they took the pole and they actually transfer the flag into another pole, larger one. >> so we knew right away it was our flag, and it was there. we just didn't do anything about it. our whole life was downtown. we actually met in the world trade center in 1975. you know, we lived on chambers street. we would walk down by the river and go to the office, and it was just very pretty, and then anything you needed was in the building and you could go to lunch, you could go to dinner, you could walk home afterwards and it was very simple. you know, it's -- it's sad every time i think about how nice life was then. >> in new york, this flag had found a new home. it was hoisted by firemen over th