Capt. Matthew Brown, commander of the Missouri National Guard 294th Engineer Company in Carthage, threads a stitch into the National 9/11 Flag at a Sept.  11 memorial in Joplin. The flag ends a 50-state tour and will return to the site of the World Trade Center where it flew 10 years before.

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