David M. Charlebois

Dee Bardino has written a book about Judge's life and legacy, published in 2023, called Michael Judge, Take Me Where You Want Me to Go.

Among the other widely reported LGBTQ victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks were a gay couple from California, Daniel Brandhorse and Ronald Gamboa, and their adopted son, David.

who were among those who died aboard the United Airlines flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Brandhorse, an attorney, and Gamboa, the manager of a Santa Monica Gap store, had adopted three-year-old David when he was an infant.

Officials with a massive federal aid program for 9-11 survivors, however, said they did not have legal authority to authorize payments to same-sex partners.

The officials in the administration of then President George W. Bush said the best they could do would be to leave it up to local authorities to determine whether state probate laws would recognize a same-sex partner as a family member for eligibility in the federal aid program for 9-11 survivors, many of whom lived in states outside the New York and D.C. area.

Nicole Nava, a spokesperson for the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund, a federally funded program established to compensate for physical harm or death caused by the 9-11 terrorist attacks, including support for surviving family members, said she would inquire into whether same-sex surviving partners were being supported under the program in subsequent years in response to requests from the Washington Blade.

Jenny Pitzer, an attorney for the LGBTQ litigation group Lambda Legal, which supported LGBTQ partner survivors of victims of the 9-11 attacks, said the information she and her organization had showed that many, if not most, of the LGBTQ partner survivors were unable to obtain the federal victim compensation fund payment benefits that, of course, married heterosexual spouses obtain.

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David M. Charlebois.

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American Airlines Flight 77, a 757-200 flying from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles.

Pilots Charles Burlingame, David Charlebois, and flight attendants Michelle Heidenberger, Jennifer Lewis, Kenneth Lewis,

and Renee May.

And the last one, United Airlines Flight 93, a 757-200 flying from Newark to San Francisco.

It left Dulles at 8:20.

Captain Burlingame, a Naval Academy graduate and Navy Reserve officer himself, and First Officer David Charlebois are flying 58 passengers on this flight, four flight attendants, and five hijackers.

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