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Rise of Freedom: Burned Art

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Artist John Coburn's drawings of 9/11 were nearly destroyed in a fire
Duration 2:34
Date Sep 6, 2011

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For more than a year our cameras have followed the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.

We're bringing you new reports this week as we lead up to Sunday's opening of the 9/11 memorial on the tenure remembrance of the attacks and tonight.

The burned -- -- drawings which captured the seat in the weeks after 9/11.

A fire nearly destroy the drawings.

That a few years back but somehow they survived and now.

It's where they began Jonathan Hunt report.

This is the overview.

Ground zero where they had set up the Salvation Army tent where they served over five million meals of -- month period.

Joan Coburn has a story for every -- -- He created in the months after the attacks.

But together these -- -- works Abbas -- a different tale of a 20065.

That abducted his Toronto studio.

Construction guy walked.

The -- He handed me this big blacks.

Pile.

And I opened it up and there were all the drawings.

All burned around the edges.

But intact.

Intact line drawings capturing a unique perspective of a post 9/11 -- you'll.

Coburn says police allowed him to look -- restricted area after an officer source some of his not He -- down that it.

And He could barely.

Speak can just say.