George Bush Would Have Been 100 – And He Might Have Jumped Out of An Airplane
President George H.W. Bush would have been 100 years old. He was born June 12, 1924.
And to mark that milestone birthday, he might have jumped out of an airplane.
Like he did when he turned 75 … and 80 … and 85 … and 90.
Why jump out of airplanes as he got older?
Here’s what President Bush said in 1998:
It was about closure because on September 2nd, 1944, I made a parachute jump and I did it badly. My life was spared. Off the island of Chichijima. During Word War II. But I made a mistake again went out too early and bad things happened. So for years I wanted to do it right. But what I thought…
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