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

[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.