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LGBTQ+ heroes of 9/11 · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath, and on the 25th anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of the September 11th terror attacks in America... We remember
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  Speaker 1: some of the LGBTQ plus heroes who stepped up. First,
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  Speaker 1: gay PR exec and rugby player Mark Bingham, who was
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  Speaker 1: on the hijacked Flight 93 to San Francisco. We think
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  Speaker 1: Al-Qaeda terrorists planned to crash the plane in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 1: either into the Capitol building or the White House. 31-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Mark called his mother, Alice Hoagland, from the aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: This was about 15 minutes before he met his death.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Mom, I just want to tell you I
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  Speaker 2: love you. I'm on a flight from Newark to San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco and there are three guys on board, there turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be four, who have taken over the plane
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  Speaker 2: and they say they have a bomb. He became distracted
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  Speaker 2: as if someone was speaking to him and then he
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  Speaker 2: came back on, there was noise on the line and
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  Speaker 2: then the phone went dead.
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  Speaker 1: Alice rang back and got through to Mark's voicemail. She
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  Speaker 1: wanted to fill him in on the day's other hijackings.
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  Speaker 2: Tell him that they're planning to use the plane as
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  Speaker 2: a suicide missile against some site on the ground and
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  Speaker 2: that nobody on the ground is going to help him,
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  Speaker 2: that he needs to group some people together. He's good
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  Speaker 2: at that because he's a rugby captain. Find some guys
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  Speaker 2: who are on board who are equal to the job
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  Speaker 2: and break into the cockpit and take over the airplane.
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  Speaker 1: Alice, who died nearly six years ago, was speaking to
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  Speaker 1: the Camler Show in 2014. We don't know if Mark
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  Speaker 1: ever heard her message, but he and three other passengers
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  Speaker 1: did bring down the plane in a field in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone on board was killed, but the lives of very
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  Speaker 1: many more were saved with the aircraft just 20 minutes
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  Speaker 1: away from Washington. International inclusive rugby tournament, the Bingham Cup,
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  Speaker 1: was created in his honour in 2002. and takes place
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  Speaker 1: every other year. Pride Daily. Next, Father Michael Judge, a
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  Speaker 1: gay Catholic priest who is officially recognised as the first
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  Speaker 1: victim of 9-11. The 68-year-old was the chaplain for New
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  Speaker 1: York's Fire Department and he rushed to the World Trade
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  Speaker 1: Centre after it was attacked by two planes. He died
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  Speaker 1: after being hit by debris from the collapsing South Tower
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  Speaker 1: whilst administering the last rites and comforting people at the
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  Speaker 1: North Tower. During the 1980s, Father Michael cared for AIDS
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  Speaker 1: patients and conducted their funerals. His sexuality wasn't widely known
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  Speaker 1: during his life and he maintained a vow of celibacy.
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  Speaker 1: And Jessica DeLong was part of the effort to get
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  Speaker 1: much-needed water to Ground Zero. Back then, the bisexual writer
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  Speaker 1: was a volunteer assistant engineer on one of the fire
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  Speaker 1: department's retired boats, the John J.
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  Speaker 2: Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: The vessel was brought back into service, pumping seawater to
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  Speaker 1: fire trucks for 80 continuous hours until water mains had
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  Speaker 1: been repaired. It was used for evacuations as well, saving
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  Speaker 1: maybe as many as 200 lives. When Jessica wasn't working
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  Speaker 1: in the engine room, she also helped sort through tons
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  Speaker 1: of donations, says there never seemed to be enough respirators,
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  Speaker 1: gloves or hard hats, but they had more nappies and
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