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  • 9/11 PHOTOGRAPHER HONORED IN NEW JERSEY

    04/23/2004 1:08:00 PM PDT · by areafiftyone · 4 replies · 163+ views
    WINS News ^ | 4/23/04
    (1010 WINS) (ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.) A newspaper photographer whose Sept. 11, 2001 image of firefighters raising a flag at Ground Zero has won dozens of awards added another to his collection Thursday. Thomas E. Franklin of The Record of Bergen County was given a gold medal for Distinguished Public Service Photojournalism by the New Jersey chapter of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. The photograph, which showed three dusty firefighters hoisting a tattered flag amid the rubble of the World Trade Center, has become one of the lasting images of the terror attacks. "What the picture really means...