Rugby player-HERO on Flight 93

[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...

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>Subject: [tacticalrugby] Re: FW: Rugby Player on a doomed flight
>
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>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
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>
>You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it.
> .
>
>Derrick Mickle
>San Francisco Fog R.F.C.
>