There are so many stories of bravery from 9-11, and probably most will never be told.  This week, one woman’s valor was retold in a rare moment on C-SPAN and to a Washington Post reporter.  Major Heather Penny of the Air National Guard had just returned from a training exercise, was a new pilot, and was ordered to scramble when it was determined that a FOURTH plane had been hijacked and was headed towards the nation’s capitol.

Heather Penny’s plane was equipped with only dummy missiles still on board from training exercises.  There was no time to re-arm.  She was told to prepare to use her own plane to crash the passenger jet still in the sky.  Flight 93 went down with the help of its own courageous passengers.  Here is just 2 minutes of known footage of an recent interview with pilot Heather Penny.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81TGnNDMLE

 

For the whole story, click here and go to the Washington Post video version.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-give-her-life-on-sept-11/2011/09/06/gIQAMpcODK_story.html

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Filed under: Featured, Inside The KC, Politics, Sonja Eddings Brown by Sonja Eddings Brown, Sep 9, 2011