50 wounded warriors will be fulfilling a lifelong dream in Suffolk this weekend. The boys and girls will be jumping from perfectely sound airplanes because they’ve always wanted to and two local clubs are providing the opportunity. Matt Thompson of TroopSwap.com is organizing the event to begin at 10 am this Sunday at our airport. Suffolk Ruitan and Suffolk Elks will be there selling barbecue. Where needed these will be tandem jumps, many in the safe arms of Mr.Skydive who once safely brought down the original President Bush. The clubs are hoping the general public will come to honor the warriors and experience the barbecue. Although currently confined to a wheelchair I hope to attend being pushed by my Vietnam Veteran son-in-law. I noticed that only Koreans veterans forward will be jumping. Us World War II apparently are too brittle. The goal of the event is to raise $10,000 for charities that support wounded service members and veterans. Businesses and individuals have been asked to provide jumper or event sponsorship.Tuesday, August 9, 2011
WATCH THE WOUNDED WARRIORS SKYDIVE SUNDAY
50 wounded warriors will be fulfilling a lifelong dream in Suffolk this weekend. The boys and girls will be jumping from perfectely sound airplanes because they’ve always wanted to and two local clubs are providing the opportunity. Matt Thompson of TroopSwap.com is organizing the event to begin at 10 am this Sunday at our airport. Suffolk Ruitan and Suffolk Elks will be there selling barbecue. Where needed these will be tandem jumps, many in the safe arms of Mr.Skydive who once safely brought down the original President Bush. The clubs are hoping the general public will come to honor the warriors and experience the barbecue. Although currently confined to a wheelchair I hope to attend being pushed by my Vietnam Veteran son-in-law. I noticed that only Koreans veterans forward will be jumping. Us World War II apparently are too brittle. The goal of the event is to raise $10,000 for charities that support wounded service members and veterans. Businesses and individuals have been asked to provide jumper or event sponsorship.
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In Suffolk jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is safer than base jumping off a transmission tower. The important thing to remember in both forms of jumping is to ensure there is adequate distance between the jumper and ground zero at the time the cord is pulled so that the parachute can deploy.
After seeing their property tax rate increases in December, there should be no trouble finding jumpers. Who would like to jump with the City Manager to see how close you get to splat before confessing her many sins. Then again being a Black female politico is a self-absolving, self-confessional mindset. She might enjoy the ride all the way down.
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