Another mystery in the 9/11 ground zero flag disappearance has been solved.
Police learned how an Everett man came to possess the missing historical flag, and turn it in to officials.
An iconic 9/11 photo showed an American flag being raised by three New York City firefighters over Ground Zero. It disappeared several hours later, only to found in Everett over a decade later. A man who identified himself as “Brian,” turned the flag into Everett Fire and gave few details about where he got the flag from. Detectives analyzed DNA and dirt and dust samples to confirm the flag was the missing one.
After seeing news coverage about the flag earlier this month, Brian Browne wrote detectives a letter explaining that he received the flag as a gift from a friend at a Veteran’s Day gathering in 2006.