From your Wikipedia link (thanks), compare her philosophy with that of certain NFL players I don’t care to mention:
When asked why she was ready to fly a kamikaze mission, “Why? 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.”
You’re welcome.
I’d read the story about Ms Penney years before, but some of the posters on this thread caused me pause, so I decided to find another source other than myself to substantiate her story.