Woman discovers her father was 9/11 hero

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Minn. woman learns dad was 9/11 hero

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- While searching for her birth parents two years ago, Mariah Mills found more than she bargained for: A hero of Sept. 11, 2001.

Mills' biological father, who had given Mills up for adoption when he and his then-girlfriend were in college, was Tom Burnett, a leader of a group that fought back on United Flight 93 before it crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

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