Today is the 88th birthday of George Stanley McGovern, as I mentioned in my diary on Friday: A Real Macho Man. Since then, it has been reported that he had a special celebration lined up for this morning:
As an Army Air Corps combat pilot during World War II, George McGovern never had to bail out of a crippled B-24 and never had to ask his crew to jump, either.
So Monday, his 88th birthday, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and former South Dakota senator is going to experience what he never did 65 years ago.
He's going to go skydiving, falling through the heavens above Brevard County near the Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida.