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To: smh who wrote (1144)	9/18/2001 1:26:17 PM
From: BulbaMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7143

Reading the Falwell/Robertson nauseating remarks, I thought of Mark Bingham. Bingham was one of the heroes on Flight 93 who stopped the hijackers from crashing a fourth plane into another building. Bingham was 6-foot-4 and had played on UC Berkeley's rugby team. He was also gay. Below is a brief bio of Mark Bingham: MARK BINGHAM Whether it was racing across traffic to save a wayward child or running with the bulls or developing a public relations campaign, Mark Bingham was ready. "He would say, `Oh, well, this is an excellent opportunity to learn fill-in-the-blank,' and he meant it," said friend Brian Johnson. The enthusiasm and strength of the brawny, 6-foot-4 rugby player leave no doubt in the minds of family and friends that, if Bingham was able, he was likely among those who tried to thwart hijackers from aiming United Airlines Flight 93 at a heavily populated area. The plane crashed in the southwest Pennsylvania countryside. "He was this physically imposing but incredibly compassionate and intelligent man who would not have stood by and let terrorists kill thousands more people," said Bryce Eberhart, a teammate of Bingham's on the San Francisco Fog, a gay men's rugby team. "He had one of the most adventurous spirits I had ever met," he added, noting that Bingham had run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Once, Bingham pulled over on his way to work to whisk a youngster out of the path of oncoming traffic. Another time, he spent hours helping a neighbor fix her telephone, Johnson recalled. "Mark," he said, "was a hero in everyday life." Bingham, 31, called his mother and told her the plane was being hijacked -- and that he loved her. He owned The Bingham Group, a public relations firm with offices in New York and San Francisco.