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JerryBaumchen

Joe Kittinger

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He was beyond an American Hero!
Early in my skydiving path, I started collecting his autographed items.
He was incarcerated in the Hanoi Hilton also.
He was a FNG vs a FOG.
That's fucking new guy vs fucking old guy!
Bigger hero and bigger than life!

Books on the Col.

The Long Lonely Leap!

Come up and Get me!

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He kindly sent me this after I wrote him a few years back.  I'd mailed him this page from the Dec. 1960 National Geographic and he signed it for me.  Was a childhood idol and his jump got me dreaming of the days when I'd be jumping, too.  RIP.

 

Kittinger autograph.JPG

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