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D-Day veteran Verdun Hayes celebrates 100th birthday with skydive
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Posted on 04/11/2016 3:10:31 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
A great-grandfather has celebrated his 100th birthday with a skydive from 10,000ft (3,000m).
D-Day veteran Verdun Hayes made the jump at Dunkeswell Airfield near Honiton, Devon, to raise money for the North Devon Hospice.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 19440606; dday; happybirthday; hhour; paratrooper; paratroopers; paratroops; veterans; wwii
The WW2 Generation are the stuff of legends
To: Red in Blue PA; The Mayor; ConorMacNessa; mountainlion; HiJinx; Publius; Jet Jaguar; TMSuchman; ...
AIRBORN!!! Gung - Ho
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posted on
04/11/2016 3:23:08 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Red in Blue PA
Good show, old boy!
Probably 10,000 feet is a lot higher than his jump on D-Day.
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posted on
04/11/2016 3:27:57 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: libertylover
True, and no one shooting at him either!
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posted on
04/11/2016 3:30:28 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: Red in Blue PA
Yayyyy Granpappy!!! Hehehe. d;^)
I absolutely LOVE IT when people LIVE!
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posted on
04/11/2016 4:29:54 PM PDT
by
CopperTop
To: Red in Blue PA
Ho. Lee. Crap.
Good on ya mate.
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posted on
04/11/2016 4:38:39 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
To: Red in Blue PA; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; ...
To: Red in Blue PA
Interesting first name. He was born while the battle of Verdun was raging.
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