Interestingly, today is both:
- the 33rd anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley.
- the 50th anniversary of Captain Joe Kittinger’s 102,800 foot parachute jump.
The second link is by way of FARK. I was not aware until fairly recently that Kittinger not only held the record for highest parachute jump, he was also shot down over Vietnam and spent 11 months as a prisoner of war.
Ordinarily, I would suggest that someone needs to write a biography of Colonel Kittinger (he was a captain at the time of the jump, but retired from the Air Force as a colonel). But wait! Somebody has
