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First, the first two days

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the main thing was saving lives

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and getting the fire out.

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On the third day,

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I start to see on the top,

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they're moving

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across the top, there's some commotion

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going on in the building.

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So I picked up my camera and I shot a picture.

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And then I changed lenses and got in closer on it.

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It was a flag, it was a huge flag.

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It was going across the top and I kinda shot the progression

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and then they came out to the front

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and then music played across the whole compound

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and then

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they dropped down the flag

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and I shot as it was unfurling

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and the last photo I caught was just

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as it had finished unfurling.

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(soft music)

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Being back here

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brings back some memories that,

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no, I thought I'd

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addressed.

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There was different things going on

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and I didn't think much of it at the time.

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I mean it was a powerful moment when I shot,

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when I saw it and I knew I had caught something

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but I didn't think.

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I was worried that I had missed the shot

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with the President.

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But what ended up happening is those that had

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shot the President made the news that day,

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and this photo

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went everyday after.

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When I,

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when I started to see that it was starting to be played

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one of the naval historians

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told it to me probably best.

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He said

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he said I had captured a moment of how a nation was feeling.

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That

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we were hurting and we were looking for something to

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to rally us.

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Let us know there was hope.

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And that photo did it.

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(soft music)