As a strapping young soldier, I was a paratrooper and “jumped out of perfectly good airplanes.”  Most jumps were from 800 feet, although a few were from 4,000 feet.  Yesterday, 90-year-old former President George H. W. Bush  jumped from 6,000 feet.  (Sure, it was a tandem jump, meaning he was harnessed to somebody else, but his legs are now useless.  It is all good!)

Mr. President, I proudly salute you!