Dozens skydive to raise money for veterans health When decorated Korean War paratrooper John “Red” Pelan turned 77 in 2008, he had an unusual request for his family and friends. He wanted to jump out of a plane again. Years after his successful birthday jump, more than 40 people carried on that tradition at Skydive Long Island in Calverton Sunday afternoon, leaping out of [...]
June 10, 2013 - The Suffolk Times
Dozens skydive in Calverton to raise money for veterans health When decorated Korean War paratrooper John Red Pelan turned 77 in 2008, he had an unusual request for his family and friends. He wanted to jump out of a plane again.
June 10, 2013 - The Riverhead News-Review
Martin Windrow in The Associated Press He has been called the best paratrooper in the world, and whatever the truth of that, he most certainly has a claim as the most battle-proven,said Martin Windrow, a British military historian and expert on France's colonial wars.
Kevyn Major Howard in WhoWon.com We just gave $5,000 to beautiful baby Grace Dunn, daughter of Army Sgt. Clayton G. Dunn II,Howard said. "Her father is a fallen hero - a 22-year-old paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division who died in Balad, Iraq, after an improvised...
Paul Kennedy in San Francisco Chronicle I went to Vermont with my bronzes of Stonewall Jackson, Joshua Chamberlain (a Union colonel) and a piece of my 82nd Airborne work showing a paratrooper landing at Normandy. I put them on the table in front of a group of National Guard officers, and... Terry Jones http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrS8F7eNun9Vki-43Ja959mWD7nA Delaware County Daily Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm%3Fnewsid%3D20116011%26BRD%3D1675%26PAG%3D461%26dept_id%3D18171%26rfi%3D6&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGQFFmYQoavinQx_IfVLex9N0Mnug Sep 10, 2008
72243 96632 paratroops The big but (is) the permanent five have to agree. If they wanted to, they could put in a force of 10,000 US Marines and 10,000 Russian paratroops, order Israel to stop flying, and squash Hezbollah. In theory," Kennedy said, referring to the...