Mark Bingham, 9/11 'hero', honoured by San Francisco. "His presumed actions to thwart the terrorists' activities on board flight 93 helped derail the plan to crash that plane into a target in Washington, D.C."
On August. 15, the
San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission voted to name the gym at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center in the city's Castro neighborhood after Bingham, a former nationally ranked rugby player.
Mind you, it's a good job he didn't want to serve his country as a lawyer for the US Army, where gay heroes are not allowed - not even in the front line of
Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States military.
In the gay community, there is some dissent about the meaning behind a
'gay hero': would
you have made assumptions about him, or other 'heroes', had you not known?
posted by dash_slot-
on Sep 10, 2002 -
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