Rugby player-HERO on Flight 93

[rugger]

It's rumored that the man making the phone call to his wife was a rugger.
You know, the guy who indicated "...we all going to die, something has to be done about it..." the plane crashed in a rural area instead of making it to a populated urban area.

Although tragedy surrounds us and these events are horrific, I hope it turns out to be more than rumor, that a fellow rugger thwarted the 4th attack.

Good luck to all,
Rugger

 

[TxRugby_8]

It saddens me deeply to here a fellow rugger has passed on. Well, we all know he will be enjoying that beautiful "pitch' in the sky.
cheers

 

[GearCowboy]

Bro I got goosbumps all over when I heard about this. The thought that a man stood up and said we're gonna do something about this, saved lives. Lots of lives, and he is a damn hero. I like the idea that someone thought about his country, and his friends on the plane enough to do something. It's sad that it resulted in a crash, but it did save lives.

 

[big4rt]

EXACTLY

From a scrum-half to all those other ruggers!

 

[batgirl]

NO I DON'T THINK WAS THE RUGBY PLAYER THAT FOUGHT AND MADE TH EPLANE GO DOWN IT WAS SHOT DOWN BY OUR FIGHTERS F-16

 

[FrankRizzo]

Thats a rumor teenybopper.

Come back and talk to me when your tits are fully developed.

 

[talonracer]

Yea there was a cell phone call from a passenger who said several male passengers were planning to try and overpower the hijackers............my guess is the hijackers were stupid enough to tell these passengers what their intentions were so they decided "what the fuck". Kinda ironic if they WERE rugby players, what better people to overpower some ragheads huh??

 

[big4life]

The Washington Post is reporting that the passengers tried
to over power the hijackers.
They also say the hijacjers had a red box they claimed
held a bomb.

God bless everybody, but especially those heroes
on this flight.

 

[MP5]

I know everyone can say this, but I honestly would have attacked those guys and hoped that not everyone on the plane was a pussy and would back me up. better going out like a hero than a chump. May he RIP.

 

[Checkmatebloated]

There with you MP5. They new from the phone call they were going to die. They went for it.

 

[Freak Show]

Its too bad we'll never know exactly what happened. People like that need a holiday in their name.

 

[nycdefender]

May peace be with my fellow rugger! All the men on that United flight were heroes. They knew that they were going to die, but they sacrificed their lives to prevent other Americans from dying. Remember that the man who called his mother had asked her to confirm whether two other planes had hit the WTC. God bless all those heroes!

 

[The Ranger]

Ranger's Words:

What greater sacrafice can we make, to so unselfishly give the ultimate so that, though we may perish, others may live by our deeds alone.

To lay our very soul on the great American altar of freedom, without concern for ourselves, so that others may thrive under the very roof of freedom, and security that is given....

We all to often forget each day that those around us, when faced with the right to choose the ultimate sacrafice....though they may be weak of body, the very soul knows not the bounderies of strength....

How can we in some small way pay just homage to such great deeds??

My thoughts are this.....Simply put, NEVER FORGET!!!

The next time you walk into Wal-Mart with your GF on your arm, you may see a WW2 veteran in a wheelchair taking loose change and giving those silly red flowers we toss in the trash can once we're outa sight....Next time, shake his hand, thank him....and take that ugly red flower and put it on top of your protein can, each time you better your body, look at that flower and better your soul as well.....

Ranger's Words

Ranger

 

[big4life]

Very well put Ranger.

Please never forget the sacrafices that some have
made so others can be free.

 

[Mr.Bo Janlges]

nice words ranger

Well put ranger.

Events like these during the past few days make everyone realise how fragile life is. Hopefully everyone will use this to remeber to always tell your loved ones how you feel and to live each day to its fullest, cause we never know what could happen tommoro.

 

[plifter]

Well I guess if I knew for certain that everyone was going to die anyway I'd have tried something too. BTW I found out that someone who went to my high school was on the first plane. He was a doctor.

 

[The Ranger]

Forever

An instant's bliss…
That moment of joy
Utter and complete,
So unlike
Any other.
Like lightning,
Or the flash of a firefly
In the night;
They blink by…
Brilliant, yet brief;
Forgotten amidst the pain
That is life.
Between these many
Seconds of ecstasy
And the ending…
A finality of
Rest,
We must choose a path.
Shall we take
The cherished moments,
Or the peaceful rewards
Of Death;
I, for one…
Will choose forever.

Ranger

 

[The Ranger]

Fallen

Off the edge
Of courage passengers marched
In muddied shoes
The engines pounding roar,
Each time louder
Than before…

Across the killing skies of time,
We lost our friends…
Yours and mine.

Fallen heroes;
Death's patient throes,
Vanquished them,
Wounded them;

Took away it all...

But pride.
Their battles fought with bravery
While every Mother died Inside…

All their nights,
All their days,
Fallen prey…

To a mission far greater...

Far too sweet;
That our minds refused
To consider defeat.

Every family took the loss,
The cost…

So great...

But for freedom gained,
No man complained.

So remember them,
Their lack of vice,
And how they made

That sacrifice…

Ranger

 

[pauly]

Thats a rumor teenybopper.

Come back and talk to me when your tits are fully developed.

Hahahah

 

[rugger]

Confirmed

The man was identified as a rugger from Southern Cali, per MSNBC.

Ruggers unite and give blood!
http://www.planet-rugby.com/news/article.html/PR/ENG?ref=26232

Rugger

 

[Stanknogger]

I don't give a shit if he was a rugger or not.

Those people were TRUE heroes. In every fucking sense of the word. These are people I'd give my life for in combat if my country asked.

I can't think of that plane and what happened in side without crying and I am a 22 yr old guy.

 

[fiatconspiracy]

RIP

 

[Natymike]

Ranger's Words:

What greater sacrafice can we make, to so unselfishly give the ultimate so that, though we may perish, others may live by our deeds alone.

To lay our very soul on the great American altar of freedom, without concern for ourselves, so that others may thrive under the very roof of freedom, and security that is given....

We all to often forget each day that those around us, when faced with the right to choose the ultimate sacrafice....though they may be weak of body, the very soul knows not the bounderies of strength....

unbelievably well put Ranger

 

[runner]

actually, one of the people who allegedly stood up to the attackers was a GAY rugby player. http://www.outsports.com

 

[Y_lifter]

One of the Passengers that called his wife from the plane is
profiled on ABCNEWS.com.

She told him about the towers and then she Begged him to sit down and not draw attention to himself.

He said "No, if they are going to drive this plane into the ground or worse, we have to do something.

Glick is described as 6-feet-2, 220 pounds, and an athlete. She did not know how many men voted to attack the terrorists.



DAMN!

 

[Tony104104]

Him and his friends were true heros for doing what they did.....

 

[Mr Scrum]

He played for Olympic Club- a team my team played last year. This was emailed to our team from his coach yesterday...

>
>Subject: [tacticalrugby] Re: FW: Rugby Player on a doomed flight
>
>
>Yes, he was a rugger and a valued teammate. Mark Bingham (Hoglen is
>his mom's name, the news has been getting his name wrong) played for
>all four years for Cal Rugby, and later was a member of the Olypmic
>Club, a Northern California Division 1 team, during its renaissance
>in the mid-90s. This past year he has been instrumental in helping
>to get our team, the San Francisco Fog, off the ground, while living
>in both San Francisco and New York.
>
>Mark was an incredible man, and packed a lot of life into 31 years.
>Not even three weeks after dislocating his shoulder in a rugby match,
>he ran with the bulls in Pamplona--and had the same shoulder gored by
>a bull! That's the kind of guy he was.
>
>Rugby was an essential part of his life. He had been playing since he
>was 16. He loved the game, and it formed his character: tough, calm
>under pressure, always supportive of his mates ("with you" was his
>life's motto), and always a gentleman.
>
>I have absolutely no doubt that the reason that plane did not make
>its target was in part due to him. He was not one to passively
>experience life. I'm sure e looked death straight in the eye and
>said, "Bring it on."
>
>CNN has footage of his mom talking about the phone call he made to
>her at:
>
>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/multimedia.html
>
>
>You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it.
> .
>
>Derrick Mickle
>San Francisco Fog R.F.C.
>