There is an image of a red, white, and blue ribbon with title and alt text "September 11, 2001" on the Google search page.
google.com/images/icons/hpcg/ribbon_us-a_42.png

I removed lots of spam
George R there were two postings with your name. i deleted it because it looked like spam.

http://a.yfrog.com/img843/9779/4g7.png

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=555e19299d544909&hl=en

The ribbon itself here:

http://www.google.com/images/icons/hpcg/ribbon_us-a_42.png