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Who issued the order to shoot down Flight 93?

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Heather Lucky Penny was with the 113th wing of the D.C. Air National Guard. She says they were ordered into the sky by the Secret Service, who relayed orders from an agent in a bunker along with the vice president. "We wouldn't be shooting it down. We would be ramming the aircraft because we didn't have weapons on board," she said.

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