Arizona shootings: 9/11 flag to be displayed at girl's funeral

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AZCentral.com:

In a fitting tribute to the birthday and life of 9-year-old Christina Green, the National 9-11 flag taken from the World Trade Center will be sent and displayed at her funeral on Thursday in Tucson.

The 20-by-30 foot flag was the largest flag to have survived the collapse of the twin towers.

Christina was born on 9/11 in 2001 and had always been proud and interested in her birthday. She was one of six people killed in a shooting spree Saturday that also injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The flag was with FDNY Firefighter Jimmy Sands on Tuesday evening at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York awaiting a flight to Arizona, says Jeff Parnell, spokesman for the New York Says Thank You Foundation that displays the flag at events across the country.


"If snowstorms don't cancel it," he said, "it will be here (Wednesday)."

He heard Christina's mother talking on a news program about how "Christina looked at 9/11 as a holiday . . . and looked for all the hopeful things that came out of it."