Cheyenne Jackson shares touching tribute to 9/11 hero Mark Bingham
United 93. It was a dramatization, in real-time, of what happened aboard one of the planes that crashed on 9/11.Bingham was a former rugby player.
He was also gay. He helped set up the world’s first international tournament for gay rugby teams in the summer of 2001.Along with other passengers and crew members, Bingham was able to overcome the terrorists who hijacked United Airlines 93, which was on its way from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco.United Airlines 93 plane ended up crashing in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people on board.
It was the only one of the four hijacked planes that day not to reach its intended target.Without the action taken by those on board, many more people might have died it the plane reached its intended target — believed to be Washington DC.Jackson posted a photo of Bingham and said, “Thinking of you today Mark Bingham.
It was a privilege portraying you in the film #United93 and I honor your memory as well as your mother Alice Hoagland’s and all of the souls lost that day. #NeverForget”A post shared by Cheyenne Jackson (@mrcheyennejackson)Hoagland, a former flight attendant, was Bingham’s mother.
