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Fighter Pilot Recalls 9/11 Mission to Ram Flight 93, and Why it Gives Her Hope

September 7, 2022
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AIRING Saturday 9/10 at 4pm ET/PT on EpochTV! The mission is hard to believe, but it was impossible to refuse. On 9/11, two fighter pilots took off from Andrews Air Force Base on a mission to locate and stop a fourth hijacked passenger jet, which appeared to be heading for the Capitol. Heather “Lucky” Penney,…

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Flight 93 Responders Recall a Time When 9/11 Attack Unified America

September 11, 2021
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The Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, was once a coal strip mine. On neighboring land, Camp Allegheny’s then-Executive Director Duane Slade recalls the mine used many charges of dynamite at once, creating loud booms as they crumbled the earth. But it was nothing compared to what he heard on Sept. 11, 2001, when…

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Man Reflects on His 9/11 History and Flight 93 Families Honoring New Heroes

September 10, 2021
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It was a beautiful day for golf and Steve Aaron, then-deputy communications director for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, intended to enjoy a few rounds with coworkers who were enjoying a last leisure day before state senators and representatives returned to session in Harrisburg. Most folks still carried beepers in 2001, instead of cell phones. That…

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