LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Louisville-area veteran turns 100 years old Saturday and he’s celebrating in daredevil style.
“My attitude is if something happens, who cares? You’ve done it, you’ve seen it, there’s not much left to do,” Lee Smith said.
Smith is a World War II veteran who loves to celebrate his birthday by skydiving.
Smith was supposed to take the plunge Saturday afternoon in Elizabethtown but it’s been postponed due to strong winds.
It would’ve been his fourth time skydiving since turning 96 years old.
Smith was part of the Army Air Cops in the 1940s and despite all his training to jump out of a plane, he never got to actually do it.
So, he’s making up for lost time.
“I think people are pretty accurate, they think I lost my mind and maybe I have,” Smith said. “But to me it’s enjoyable, I like it. You go way up high, 10,000 plus feet and you fall out of an airplane.
Smith said never say never, he said he might go skydiving again to celebrate his 200th birthday.
