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Retiree to give Ground Zero flag to ship

Ted Cook, a retired firefighter holds a flag

Photo credit: Ed Betz | Ted Cook, a retired firefighter holds a flag that was flow over Ground Zero and will be presented to the ship Carl Vinson which was the ship from which Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea from and where his son Christopher serves. (June 10, 2011)

A retired New York City firefighter from Deer Park who responded on 9/11 will meet the USS Carl Vinson when it docks next week in San Diego and present the crew, which includes his son, with an American flag that flew over Ground Zero.

Noting that the Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, was the ship from which Osama bin Laden was buried at sea last month, Ted Cook said he thought...

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