{"id":48770,"date":"2014-05-25T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48770"},"modified":"2014-05-25T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T22:34:06","slug":"92-year-old-paratrooper-makes-first-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48770","title":{"rendered":"92-year-old paratrooper makes first jump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the CBC story<\/a> of 92-year-old Ralph Mayville who trained as a paratrooper in World War II, but the war ended before he could make his first jump. I guess they awarded him the wings despite the fact that he never jumped, but he finally made the leap yesterday;<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s never been, in his mind, entitled to wear the jump wings, either the American or Canadian ones. And now this fulfills his dream, that he can wear the wings as part of his uniform,\u201d said family friend, Paul Chaytor.<\/p>\n

Mayville, who’s from Windsor, gathered up his courage to finally make his first jump at a skydiving school in Wainfleet, Ont., near Niagara Falls on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The veteran and his instructor climbed to 14,000 feet in a plane and leapt out of the plane in a tandem jump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so beautiful,\u201d said Mayville.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure one tandem jump would qualify him, but I guess it’s better than zero jumps. But I’m not gong to tell him.<\/p>\n

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ADDED:<\/strong> Ralph might be a bit of a poser. In this article<\/a>, he says he was one of the first to enter Rome – that might be hard to do seein’s how he says the war ended before he could jump. Here’s an interesting picture of him accompanying this story<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Ralph Mayville, 93, is one of The Devil\u2019s Brigade soldiers with his roots here in Windsor. He, aside from last year, says he hadn\u2019t seen his old friends since the unit disbanded in December 1944.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stood on that stage too long but it\u2019s nice to be here to see all my old friends and company commanders,\u201d said Mayville.<\/p>\n

Mayville stood, but did not speak, with his comrades at the end of the film to talk about the experiences of war and to take question\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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