and heterosexual friends and advocates for Progressive change and LGBT
civil rights equality are proud of heroic gays.
Finally, Bruce agrees with me on something. Amazing.
On 1/11/11, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is understandable that gay people are proud of heroic gays.
>
> I think there was one in the group who rushed the Islamofascists on the
> Pennsylvania 9/11 flight.
>
> But in this story it seems odd and premature to emphasize.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Jonathan Ashley <
> jonathanashleyii@lavabit.com> wrote:
>
>> Tommy,
>>
>> Who, besides you, gives a rat's ass if Hernandez is gay?
>>
>> What does his being gay have to do with the possibility that he saved
>> Gifford's life?
>>
>> On 1/10/2011 7:02 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Hernandez, gay 20 Year old intern, may have saved Gabrielle
>> Giffords' life with first aid
>>
>> Daniel Hernandez had been U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' intern for
>> five days when she was shot Saturday outside Tucson.
>>
>> The junior at the University of Arizona was helping check people in at
>> the "Congress on Your Corner" event when he heard gunfire. He was
>> about 30 feet from the congresswoman. When the shots began, he ran
>> toward them.
>>
>> "I don't even know if the gunfire had stopped," he said Saturday night
>> as he kept a vigil at the University Medical Center cafeteria,
>> gathered near a TV watching tributes and getting updates.
>>
>> When the shots began that morning, he saw many people lying on the
>> ground, including a young girl. Some were bleeding. Hernandez said he
>> moved from person to person checking pulses.
>>
>> "First the neck, then the wrist," he said. One man was already dead.
>> Then he saw Giffords. She had fallen and was lying contorted on the
>> sidewalk. She was bleeding.
>>
>> Using his hand, Hernandez applied pressure to the entry wound on her
>> forehead. He pulled her into his lap, holding her upright against him
>> so she wouldn't choke on her own blood. Giffords was conscious, but
>> quiet.
>>
>> Ron Barber, Giffords' district director, was next to her. Hernandez
>> told a bystander how to apply pressure to one of Barber's wounds.
>>
>> Barber told Hernandez, "Make sure you stay with Gabby. Make sure you
>> help Gabby."
>>
>> Hernandez used his hand to apply pressure until someone from inside
>> Safeway brought him clean smocks from the meat department. He used
>> them to apply pressure on the entrance wound, unaware there was an
>> exit wound. He never let go of her.
>>
>> He stayed with Giffords until paramedics arrived. They strapped her to
>> a board and loaded her into an ambulance. Hernandez climbed in with
>> her. On the ride to the hospital, he held her hand. She squeezed his
>> back.
>>
>> When they arrived at the hospital, Hernandez was soaked in blood. His
>> family brought him clean clothes because the FBI took his for
>> evidence.
>>
>> He waited at the hospital while she went into surgery. He needed to
>> tell police what had happened. He overheard people walking by talking
>> about how Giffords had died. He also heard this on NPR. Later, he
>> learned she had lived.
>>
>> "I was ecstatic," he said. "She was one of the people I've looked up
>> to. Knowing she was alive and still fighting was good news. She's
>> definitely a fighter, whether for her own life, or standing up for
>> people in southern Arizona."
>>
>> The fact that Hernandez was nearby and able to react quickly probably
>> saved Giffords' life, said state Rep. Matt Heinz, D-Tucson, and a
>> hospital physician. He talked to Hernandez at the hospital after the
>> shooting.
>>
>> Eight hours after the shooting, Hernandez stood with Giffords' friends
>> and staff and told them what had happened. The tall, strong
>> 20-year-old said, "Of course you're afraid, you just kind of have to
>> do what you can."
>>
>> They hugged and thanked him. Later, he sat with his mom and sisters
>> and told them about his friends and the staffers who had died that
>> day.
>>
>> "You just have to be calm and collected," he said. "You do no good to
>> anyone if you have a breakdown. . . . It was probably not the best
>> idea to run toward the gunshots, but people needed help."
>>
>>
>>
>> Read more:
>> http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/09/20110109daniel-hernandez-gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting.html#ixzz1Ae2X7Eur
>>
>>
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