This is a re-post of last year's Merv Jones D-Day anniversary - this year 2013, Merv is 90.
Have a good one, Merv! Airborne all the way.

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Merv Jones breezes through another June 6 D-Day anniversary at a weekly veteran's coffee and breakfast gathering at a local Quebec City shopping centre where I hoist my Canadian Airborne Regiment and Canadian Forces Medical Services flags.

Merv, who turned 89 recently, is one the very few surviving members of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion who jumped into Normandy in the wee hours of the morning, hours before the actual invasion landings begun. Always an optimist, Merv's goal is to hang around for another 11 years to make it to 100!

Bravo Zulu, Merv -
Airborne