Editing Mark Bingham (section)

==Early life==
Mark Bingham was born on May 22, 1970, the only child of Alice Hoagland and Gerald Bingham. When Mark was two years old, his parents divorced. Raised by his mother and her family, Mark grew up in [[Miami, Florida]], and [[Southern California]] before moving to the [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] area in 1983. Bingham was an aspiring filmmaker, and as a teenager, he began using a video camera as a personal diary to document his life and those of his family and friends. He graduated from [[Los Gatos High School]] as a two-year captain of his rugby team in 1988. As an undergraduate at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], Bingham played on two of Coach [[Jack Clark (rugby union)|Jack Clark's]] national-championship-winning rugby teams in the early 1990s. He also joined the [[Chi Psi]] fraternity, eventually becoming its president. Upon graduation at the age of 21, Bingham [[Coming out|came out as gay]] to his family and friends.<ref name=WithYouPress>{{cite web|author=Woolf, Tiffany|url=http://www.withyoufilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/WY-Press-Kit.zip|title=Sneak Preview Screening: Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017200732/http://www.withyoufilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/WY-Press-Kit.zip |archive-date=October 17, 2012|date=July 2011}}</ref><ref name=MercuryNews>Siek, Julia Prodis (September 11, 2011). [https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/09/10/messages-for-flight-93-passenger-capture-fear-resolve-on-sept-11/ "Messages for Flight 93 passenger capture fear, resolve on Sept. 11"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911191427/https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/09/10/messages-for-flight-93-passenger-capture-fear-resolve-on-sept-11/ |date=September 11, 2018 }}.''[[San Jose Mercury News]]''</ref>