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This is by far one of my most proudest and emotional videos I filmed as a live streamer with Occupy Pittsburgh. I'm confident this was shot on February 5, 2011, but it may have been a little bit before that. It started with the Vets beginning to remove the ripped and weather worn american flag that flew over Occupy Pittsburgh since the first day on October 15th. I asked to keep it so it could be saved for history and the vets agreed it should be saved. Even though, we all kept saying this was not a sign of retreat, we soon realized after removing the secondlargest american flag that indeed this was a sign of retreat, as Occupy Pittsburgh ended on February 8, 2011 with about 12 members holding a press conference and marching out of the park before the Allegheny County Sherrifs could come in and forcibly remove them. I teared up as I was presented the first flag, and totally lost it emotionally as the second flag was removed and presented to one of the vets. It's strange as I have the entire archive of Occupy Pittsburgh footage, but never thought of going back and starting to cut high lights until a week or so ago. This is the first vid to be edited, and will also be the first video that a commentary will be cut to for the Occupy Pgh live stream channel relaunch marathon on this Saturday.

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