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KANSAS CITY, MO (KMBC) — The National World War I Museum in Kansas City honored veterans even during the COVID-19 pandemic. A special jump team of veterans landed on the iconic lawn of the Liberty Memorial Wednesday morning.
The jump team was led by former Navy Seal and Purple Heart recipient Ryan “Birdman” Parrott.
The all-veteran parachute team tandem skydived onto the lawn Wednesday morning. The 20-person group featured a veteran from each war from World War II through the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The oldest veteran that made the jump was 96-year-old Peter Bielskis, a former Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. in World War II.
Parrott capped off the jump with a symbolic World War I soldier and missing man base jump off the 217-foot Liberty Memorial.
There was a public Veterans Day ceremony at the courtyard. Watch the complete ceremony below.
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