Normandy vet sings "Blood on the Risers/Paratrooper thread. Any jumpers?

BotR w/lyrics

Just such a gallows humor sort of thing. Jumping into the maw of madness, with a good chance of death.



I remember my neighbor growing up, Mr. Ray. He was old then and had been a jumper in ww2. He had a glass eye and a wicked scar on his belly. He jumped over France...I forget what forest. Came down in a tree and was nearly disemboweled by a branch.

Crazy that even if the jump went well, if you weren't torn to shreds by Anti-aircraft fire, you could end up landing bad and having something like that happen.

And your reward if it all went as planned was to be fighting for your life behind enemy lines.
The Balls on those dudes.

My cousin is a jumper. He says it's "a flood of the most primal fear followed by euphoria followed by anxiety to land."

Just a wild concept. To hear him talk about the jumpers doing it in combat zones...those were some hard, hard men.

Any jumpers here? Or stories of them?