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Heather Penney
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Because there are things in this world that are more important than ourselves. Freedom. The Constitution of the United States. Our way of life. Mom, baseball, apple pie; these things and so many more that make us uniquely American. We belong to something greater than ourselves. As complex and diverse and discordant as it is, this thing, this idea called America, binds us together in citizenship and community and brotherhood.
Heather 'Lucky' Penney
At the time a rookie first lieutenant fighter pilot in the Air National Guard, on why she would have done the nearly unthinkable on 9/11 — ramming United Flight 93 in her rapidly scrambled but unarmed (save for minimal 100 rounds of ball ammunition always carried to maintain trim) F-16. This would have stopped the airliner from attacking Washington DC, but would probably result in her death and the death of everyone on the B-757.
United 93 crashed into a field before reaching Washington DC. On 9/11 her dad was a United Airlines captain who sometimes flew out of the East Coast. Opinion piece Heather Penney, the 9/11 fighter pilot, says celebrating normalcy is a way to honor heroes, The Washington Post, 13 September 2013. She went on to serve two tours in the Iraq war.
It never bothered me that I had to be 120% better than the dudes because I wanted to be 120% better than anybody.
Major Heather 'Lucky' Penney, USAF
Penney joined the Air Force in 1998 when the rules banning women from combat roles were eliminated. She was the only woman in her fighter pilot training class and initially the only woman in her F-16 fighter squadron. Interview Fighter pilot, a Purdue alumna, was prepared to sacrifice her life on 9/11, Purdue University newsletter, 9 September 2021.
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