National 9/11 Flag Another Way to Remember
By: Lindsay Merwin
Updated: November 7, 2010
It's the same flag you've seen in pictures of Ground Zero after September 11th.
And now it's getting put back together.
The 20 by 30 flag made a stop at Baker Chapel in Degonia Springs, the church that the New York Says Thank You Foundation helped to rebuild.
Friends and loved ones of those lost in the tornado and anyone wanting to participate got the chance to put a stitch in the flag.
The foundation takes the flag all over the country, collecting pieces of flags from each state and sewing them into the larger flag.
On Saturday, part of the flag that flew over Baker Chapel during the tornado was added.
Foundation members say it's a way of uniting the country through its tragedies.
"Everybody came to New York City to help us after 9/11 so we're taking the flag to everybody that came to us and everybody has a part. Basically the country's being able to stitch this flag back together."
A full police escort accompanied the flag to Newburgh Seventh-Day Adventist church for another remembrance ceremony Saturday night.
When it's complete, the flag will be donated to the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York.
