CNN just showed an interview with the mother/wife of one of the plane victims who called from his cell phone. Told them it was hijacked, and that the hijackers said they had a bomb. Then he told them if he didn't see them again, he loved them... Man, so much pain...
As this tragedy reaches the 2nd and 3rd days, the stories will get more personal, and heartbreaking. DaDakota
Man that made me sad. I just thought what I would do if I was him. Did you see he had a baby?????????????????? I couldn't think about never seing my baby boy again. God Save the US.
I was in class when it happened. Someone got a cell phone call. Both of her roommates parents were on flight #11 from Boston to LA, and her fellow suitemates needed her to come home so that she could unlock the door as the girl had locked herself in. They had been visiting her since she hadn't gone home during the summer. I couldn't believe it... at first, our professor thought she was joking.
For those who did not catch the Mark Bingham video, it can be found at the link below. The link also provides a video of the FIRST crash as well as the most unbelievable reverse-angle shot of the second crash in which the plane just appears to get swallowed by the building. http://www.cnn.com/video/popup/video_sections/us.videos.html
http://www.outsports.com/bingham20010912.htm Remembering Mark Bingham, Hero Outsports.com To those who knew Mark Bingham, 31, he was a warm, friendly, smart, handsome man who welcomed people into his life. He was the kind of guy that a perfect stranger would feel totally comfortable talking to about life's deepest issues, and most trivial matters. He was one of the passengers on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Shortly before the plane crashed, he was able to call his mother and say his good-byes. He had been flying from New York back home to San Francisco at the time. Mark was a member of our community. A graduate of the University of California - Berkeley, he was a member of the Golden Bears' national champion rugby team in the 1990s. After college, he played rugby with the San Francisco Fog, a gay rugby team in the City. He was also planning to field a touch rugby team for next year's Gay Games in Sydney. We at Outsports knew Mark from two flag football games between our Los Angeles team and his San Francisco team. He was a terrific athlete, with the hands of Cris Carter and the strength of Daunte Culpepper. His spirit was even more impressive and memorable, his big smile and boisterous personality dominating the social events after each game. Today we were copied on an e-mail, recently written by Mark, that he sent to his Fog rugby team in San Francisco, after they were accepted into the straight California Rugby League. Some great words written by, truly, a great man: "When I started playing rugby at the age of 16, I always thought that my interest in other guys would be an anathema -- completely repulsive to the guys on my team -- and to the people I was knocking the **** out of on the other team. I loved the game, but KNEW I would need to keep my sexuality a secret forever. I feared total rejection. As we worked and sweated and ran and talked together this year, I finally felt accepted as a gay man and a rugby player. My two irreconcilable worlds came together. Now we've been accepted into the union and the road is going to get harder. We need to work harder. We need to get better. We have the chance to be role models for other gay folks who wanted to play sports, but never felt good enough or strong enough. More importantly, we have the chance to show the other teams in the league that we are as good as they are. Good rugby players. Good partiers. Good sports. Good men. Gay men weren't always wallflowers waiting on the sideline. We have the opportunity to let these other athletes know that gay men were around all along - on their little league teams, in their classes, being their friends. This is a great opportunity to change a lot of people's minds, and to reach a group that might never have had to know or hear about gay people. Let's go make some new friends...and win a few games. Congratulations, my brothers in rugby. Mb" It is believed that the passengers on the plane that Mark was on may have had a role in diverting the plane from its target in, probably, Washington DC. It is also believed that Mark would have had an active role in that effort by the passengers. As his Aunt, Kathy Bingham, said, "You’d have to know Mark — he was no wallflower, no pushover. He wasn’t the kind of guy to be pushed around. So I’m sure he and the others did something to stop this.’’ From what we can tell now, Mark left us as a greater role model than he could have ever imagined.
Did you hear about the guy who was on the 60th floor (or thereabouts) and as he was going down the stairs, he unstrapped a girl in a wheel chair and carried her to safety. It took him about 45mins to get down- he is a hero in the full sense of the word. It's a shame that it took a disaster of these proportions to bring us all together. It really makes you think....
