![]() ![]() ![]() 11 terrorist attacks, those children consider it their responsibility to share the legacy of their courageous cousin and Auntie Alice with their own generation, the ones too young to understand the terror and true heroism of that day. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. A year and a half earlier, she had delivered them a daughter, Jillian. Six months before the attack, at 51, she gave birth to triplet boys - Harrison, Garrett and Bryce - as a surrogate for her younger brother and his wife. He was her only child.Īnother part of her life, however, was mostly private. In interviews and documentaries and at 9/11 memorials, the Los Gatos mother became a familiar face over the last two decades, preserving the memory of her son, a 31-year-old public relations executive and former Cal Berkeley rugby player whose courage helped a bewildered, grieving nation believe all was not lost. Bingham was a victim of Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11. Alice Hoagland and her son, Mark Bingham share a hug during Christmas day, 1999. She died in her sleep nearly a year ago, at age 71, but in unexpected and little-known ways the story endures. LOS GATOS - Twenty years later, Alice Hoagland isn’t here any longer to tell the story of her son, Mark Bingham - of how he and fellow passengers on Flight 93 tried to wrestle the hijacked plane back from terrorists and perished when it crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside. ![]()
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