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I was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne from 1982-1985 and, when I made my last jump with the division, T. Moffatt Burriss was beyond retirement age. Proving that old warriors are still warriors, Mr. Burriss, at the young age of 90, put his knees in the breeze over Nijmegen once again.

Columbia’s T. Moffatt Burriss – four days away from his 90th birthday – swooped down Friday onto a fallow field outside a small Dutch village much as he had 65 years ago during World War II.

Jumping tandem with a female former Dutch paratrooper, Burriss touched down firmly, fell back onto the soft earth and beamed.

“I’ve been waiting a long time to do that again,” he said.

In September, 1944, Burriss – a company commander in the 82nd Airborne Division – had been one of more than 25,000 airborne troops, U.S., British and Polish, who landed in southeastern Holland, in Operation Market-Garden. The bold attempt to open a corridor into Germany’s industrial heartland and win the war was the largest parachute drop in history.

Less than four months after D-Day, the paratroopers were to take bridges over three rivers in Holland and guard a 65-mile-long route for British armor to punch through weakened German resistance. Ultimately, the operation failed because the tanks couldn’t reach the northernmost bridge at Arnhem – made infamous in the book “A Bridge too Far” and movie of the same name.

On Friday, Burriss said he flashed back to that day as he was drifting to earth.

“It brought back memories,” he said after disengaging himself from well-wishers, dignitaries, a few hundred Dutch citizens, and about two dozen family and friends there to celebrate the anniversary. “But it was a little different back then. People were shooting at me.

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The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It is a subordinate unit of the XVIII Airborne Corps.

The 82nd Division was constituted in the National Army on 5 August 1917, and was organized on 25 August 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the unit acquired the nickname “All-American", which is the basis for its famed “AA” shoulder patch.^[1] Famous soldiers of the division include Sergeant Alvin C. York, General James M. Gavin, Dave Bald Eagle (grandson of Chief White Bull), Senator Strom Thurmond (325GIR in World War II), Senator Jack Reed and Congressman Patrick Murphy (the first Iraq War veteran elected to Congress.) State Representative Bryan Lentz (PA-161) attempted to become the second member of the 82nd Airborne to join Congress, but was not elected.

  

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