A large American flag waves in the wind over the American occupied Kandahar International Airport. Marines raised the flag December 17, 2001. The flag bears signatures of rescue workers, friends and family of victims of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and the USS Cole. Seventeen of the flag's stars were dedicated to the 17 U.S. sailors who died when the Cole was bombed last year. The flag came fro Ground Zero in NYC.