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At 98, D-Day Vet Jumps Again, With Eyes on the Big 100

Associated Press

   GROESBEEK, NETHERLANDS - Jump by jump, 98-year-old D-Day veteran Tom
   Rice is nudging closer to his goal of leaping out of planes at age 100.
   The American who caused a sensation in June by parachuting into
   Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings was at it
   again on Thursday.
   This time, his landing zone was in the Netherlands.
   Rice, strapped to a younger parachutist who steered the canopy, jumped
   as part of commemorations for massive airborne landings September 1944.
   He described their jump as "perfect" and said: "I'm going to do it
   until I'm 100."
   Rice jumped with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division on D-Day.
   Thursday's jump with hundreds of parachutists was to commemorate the
   75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, a 1944 land-and-airborne
   thrust through the Netherlands.

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