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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 19, 2019, 08:56 PM Sep 2019

At 98, D-Day vet jumps again, with eyes on the big 100

GROESBEEK, Netherlands (AP) — Jump by jump, 98-year-old D-Day veteran Tom Rice is nudging closer to his goal of leaping out of planes at age 100.

The American who caused a sensation in June by parachuting into Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings was at it again on Thursday.

This time, his landing zone was in the Netherlands.

"Woooo! That was a nice fall!" he yelped as his 'chute opened.

Strapped to a younger parachutist who steered their canopy, Rice jumped as part of commemorations for the massive landings of airborne Allied troops in September 1944.

He described the jump as "perfect" and said: "I'm going to do it until I'm 100."

Hundreds of other parachutists also soared over the Netherlands on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, a 1944 land-and-airborne thrust through the country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-98-d-day-vet-jumps-again-with-eyes-on-the-big-100/ar-AAHxfXH?li=BBnb7Kz

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At 98, D-Day vet jumps again, with eyes on the big 100 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2019 OP
Here's hoping that he makes that jump! 3catwoman3 Sep 2019 #1
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