Local veteran to participate in skydive celebration

By RICHARD JENKINS

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Wednesday, a group of 20 veterans will tandem skydive onto the front lawn of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, as part of the museum’s commemoration of Veterans Day. One of the jumpers is expected to be local veteran, Tom DeCarlo.

The “legacy jump” will kick of the museum’s Veterans Day activities and will feature veterans from the ages of 28 to 92, representing World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Sept. 11.

DeCarlo, a Hurley native...