90-Year-Old Korean War Veteran Skydives To Honor His Late Wife: “Loved Her More Than Life”

Love is supposed to make you feel weightless. And I don't know how you can get - or at least feel - more weightless than when your skydiving. Especially when you are the ripe age of 90-years-old. Or should I say... 90-years-young? You have to be young at heart to decide to go skydiving a decade short of 100. And Bill Rogers, a Korean War Veteran from Manchester, Massachusetts, did just that. Rogers didn't just do it for the heck of it. His reasoning behind skydiving for a whopping sixth time in his life was about as romantic as it gets. This past weekend, Bill Rogers honored the anniversary that he and his late wife, Natalie, shared by skydiving. Though his wife passed away seven years ago, Bill Rogers still manages to love her more and more everyday. He told WMUR 9 that skydiving, as crazy as it sounds and seems, helps him feel close to his late wife: "Every time I jump out of a plane, I can hear her say, 'Billy, you're as crazy as ever.'" Those kinds of moments are what Bill Rogers lives for nowadays. The veteran will do just about anything to feel close to his wife again, and he's always happy to talk about how they found one another way back in the day: "When I first saw her, I couldn't keep my eyes off of her. I asked her to walk with me. She agreed. We held hands, we looked at each other, and we both knew then it was going to be forever. People said, 'You're crazy; you don't know what love is about. Well, 70 years later, I was still holding her hand when she passed away." Just adorable... Rogers likes to celebrate the big moments in life, and judging by his latest skydiving session, he enjoys matching the moment with a celebration that's just as grand. He couldn't think of a better way to honor his late wife. And as Rogers said earlier, he knows that she gets a kick out of him staying young in his old age: "She was just an amazing human, I loved her more than life – still do. My wife talked to me all the way down! She said, 'I've got you in my arms.'" You can view the local news story and actually see Bill Rogers skydive in the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTyYG5yZFKQ