Beskrivning : Silk cachet showing tribute to the victims of the September 11th attacks.
In the early morning hours of 12 September 2001, New York City Police Sergeant Gerald Kane and Detective Peter Friscia, assigned to the office of Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, retrieved a large American flag that was tattered and torn and wrapped around a flag pole near in corners of Church and Chambers Street amidst the devastation of the World Trade Center site. That American flag, a USMC flag recovered from the Pentagon, an American flag that flew over the State Capital in Harrisburg, PA on the day of 11 Sept., the 23 shields (badges) of the fallen NYPD officers; patches, posters and an emblem from the FDNY, patches from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and 6,000 small American flags to honor those lost and those that served in the response and recovery efforts for 9/11 were all flown aboard Endeavour.
Houston illustrated post stamp.

USA 2656 - image retouchée ?

Sida : future · Ref: USA 2656 

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STS 108 (ENDEAVOUR) · I.S.S. EXPEDITION 4 · CREW ROTATION & EVA