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Today would have been my grandfather’s 91st birthday. He died in November of 2006, and I miss him a lot. Here’s a little press about his exploits as a young man (he was the guy making the “death defying” jump – IN HANDCUFFS – out of the airplane.)

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After he gave up jumping out of airplanes, he went on to become on the orld’s leading amateur Noah’s Ark searchers, climbing Mr Ararat numerous times. He launched a website devoted to this topic when he was in his late 80s.

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  2 Responses to “Happy Birthday, Ray”

  1. Wow! What a life!

  2. Don’t forget that he never went to college but managed to get a job with Hughes Aircraft and helped build the first geosynchronous(I think I have that right) satellite which is now on display at the Smithsonian. Grandpa was cool.

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