[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Hehe those guys were high.

[martin_fierro]

U.S. WWII Paratrooper veterans pose after their briefing just before making a parachute jump over Sainte Mere L'Eglise in Normandy, June 7, 2004. Six U.S. Paratrooper veterans jumped on Monday: Tom Morrison (80 years-old from Ambler, Pennsylvania), Bill Coleman (80 years old from Orlando, Florida), Carl Beck (78 years-old from Atlanta, Georgia), Richard Case (83 years-old from Las Vegas, Nevada), Bill Priest (80 years-old, from St Petersburg, Florida) and Howard Greenberg (79 years-old from Cleveland, Ohio). Pictured clockwise from top right: Coleman, Case, Beck, Richard Falvey (who did not jump), Morrison, Richard Mandich (who did not jump) and Priest. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

[martin_fierro]

Bill Coleman, an 80 year-old WWII paratrooper veteran from Orlando, Florida gathers his parachute after landing in a field after a jump over Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy, June 7, 2004. Six U.S. paratrooper veterans jumped on Monday: Tom Morrison (80 years-old from Ambler, Pennsylvania), Bill Coleman, Carl Beck (78 years-old from Atlanta, Georgia), Richard Case (83 years-old from Las Vegas, Nevada), Bill Priest (80 years-old, from St Petersburg, Florida) and Howard Greenberg (79 years-old from Cleveland, Ohio). REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

[martin_fierro]

U.S. WWII Paratrooper veterans Bill Coleman (R) (80 years old from Orlando, Florida) and Howard Greenberg (79-years-old from Cleveland, Ohio), give the thumbs-up after a jump over Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy, June 7, 2004. Six U.S. paratrooper veterans jumped on Monday: Tom Morrison (80-years-old from Ambler, Pennsylvania), Coleman, Carl Beck (78 years-old from Atlanta, Georgia), Richard Case (83 years-old from Las Vegas, Nevada), Bill Priest (80 years-old, from St Petersburg, Florida) and Greenberg. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

[tdadams]

Some 40 veterans made a similar commemorative jump here 10 years ago for the 50th anniversary events. Then, their average age was 75.5 years and now it is 85.5 years, so the jump on Monday may be the last.

Why so pessimistic?? If they're around in 10 years, let 'em jump.

[martin_fierro]

U.S. WWII Paratrooper veterans Bill Coleman (R - 80 years old from Orlando, Florida) and Howard Greenberg (79 years-old from Cleveland, Ohio), wave after landing in a field after a jump over Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy, June 7, 2004. Six U.S. paratrooper veterans jumped on Monday: Tom Morrison (80 years-old from Ambler, Pennsylvania), Coleman, Carl Beck (78 years-old from Atlanta, Georgia), Richard Case (83 years-old from Las Vegas, Nevada), Bill Priest (80 years-old, from St Petersburg, Florida) and Greenberg. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Tom Morrison, an 80 year-old U.S. WWII Paratrooper veteran from Ambler, Pennsylvania, jumps over Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy, June 7, 2004. Six paratrooper veterans jumped on Monday: Tom Morrison, Bill Coleman (80 years-old from Orlando, Florida), Carl Beck (78 years-old from Atlanta, Georgia), Richard Case (83 years-old from Las Vegas, Nevada), Bill Priest (80 years-old, from St. Petersburg, Florida) and Howard Greenberg (79 years-old from Cleveland, Ohio). REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

[.38sw]

WOW! These guys are great! What an experience for them to jump again after all these years. I'm so glad that they were able to do it.

[Joe 6-pack]

[Pompah]

Way back in the 1950's I was fortunate enough to serve with some of the WWII Combat Veterans at Fort Campbell Kentucky I viewed them with Awe. They were my Hero's then.

They are still my Hero's today.
Geronimo.

[shezza]

GREAT story! What a fantastic group of heroes.

[19th LA Inf]

About 1949 I had a college classmate who was an airborne vet, I forget which division. He impressed on me the aggressive attitude they had gotten from their training, and I believe he had made a couple of combat jumps. I realized he was "older", being just a kid myself, but I didn't know until I read his obit years later, that he had been 38 years old in 1944.

I highly recommend that all who have not done so, read "Band of Brothers" to gain a full appreciation of these men.

[nuconvert]

Jump, Pong

[Political Junkie Too]

I saw a replay of the Internation D-Day celebration event yesterday on CSPAN.

What was really touching was that, during the military parade when the veterans of D-Day came marching in, they started off walking like frail old men but by the time they made it to the reviewing stand, they seemed to have dug down deep, drew on an inner reserve of strength, and picked up a cadence and marched in unison.

-PJ