"There's no fear to it. It's just something you do."

[miK.]

93-year-old vet just recreated his D-Day parachute jump over Normandy
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/93-year-old-d-...1586902391

:patriot:

[Speedy]

Good for him!

No reflection on his feat but I'm still hoping for a ninety year old to jump without being strapped to another jumper.

[cbelt3]

Speedy wrote:
Good for him!

No reflection on his feat but I'm still hoping for a ninety year old to jump without being strapped to another jumper.

Somehow I don't expect our litigious society to allow such declarations of pure Americanness...

[voodoopenguin]

cbelt3 wrote:
Somehow I don't expect our litigious society to allow such declarations of pure Americanness...

Is that an oxymoron?

Paul

[Ombligo]

Letting the vets jump alone likely ended 20 years ago when the main parachute of one veteran, Earl Draper, 70, from Inverness, Florida, failed to open and he had to use his safety chute, landing in marshy terrain and injuring his back, although not seriously. - ironically he had missed the actual D-Day jump due to a leg injury from a practice jump in 1944.

[Mini 9]

D-Day vets should be able to go/do whatever the hell they please PERIOD.
PERIOD!

[deckeda]

voodoopenguin wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
Somehow I don't expect our litigious society to allow such declarations of pure Americanness...

Is that an oxymoron?

Paul
I think it's good ole fashioned irony.