On 1/13/11, GregfromBoston <greg.vincent@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Excellent.
>
> The improtance of the fact he is gay is qutie unfortunant though.
>
> Way to go kid!
>
> On Jan 13, 11:45 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> President Obama calls gay intern who helped save Giffords' life a hero
>>
>> by GoPride.com News Staff
>>
>> Tucson, Ariz. — During a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims on
>> Wednesday, President Obama singled out the heroes from that day,
>> including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gay intern, Daniel Hernandez.
>>
>> Hernandez had only been working for Giffords for five days when the
>> shooting started on Saturday.
>>
>> 20-year-old Hernandez was volunteering at the community event and was
>> standing just feet away from Giffords when Jared Loughner opened fire
>> on the congresswoman. Hernandez immediately rushed to her side and
>> tried to comfort her.
>>
>> "We are grateful to Daniel Hernandez," President Obama said. "Daniel,
>> I am sorry, you may deny it, but you are a hero, but we have decided
>> you are a hero. Because you ran through the chaos to minister to your
>> boss, and helped keep her alive."
>>
>> Hernandez, who was seated in the front row next to the President,
>> stood awkwardly as the President showered praise on him. Hernandez
>> smiled shyly, and then sat back down.
>>
>> During the memorial for the victims, Obama also recognized the other
>> heroes from the day, including the woman who grabbed the magazine clip
>> before Loughner could jam it back into the gun, and the men who
>> tackled him until police arrived.
>>
>> "When I heard gunshots, my first instinct was to head towards the
>> congresswoman to make sure that she was OK," Daniel Hernandez
>> Hernandez told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
>>
>> "I had to lift up the congresswoman, because she was severely injured,
>> and I wanted to make sure that she was able to breathe OK because
>> there was so much blood," he said. "We had to grab whatever we could.
>> And because we were outside of a grocery store, the employees from the
>> grocery store brought out smocks that are used by the meat department
>> that were clean, so that we may use them as bandages, because that was
>> really the only clean cloth that we had."
>>
>> "The congresswoman was alert. She was able to hold my hand when I
>> asked her if she could hear me," said Hernendez.
>>
>> Hernandez, a junior at the University of Arizona, is gay and is a
>> member of the City of Tucson Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
>> Transgender Issues. "She's been a great ally to the LGBT community,"
>> Hernandez said of Giffords during an interview with the Dallas Voice.
>>
>> Giffords is a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and is a strong
>> supporter of gay rights, including gay marriage.
>>
>> Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed on Saturday.
>>
>> More:http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/15827089/presid...
>>
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>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
>
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