(L) T. Moffat Burris parachuted when he was 90 years old (R) Burris speaks to the Golden K. Kiwanis about his experiences. Photo (r) by Bob Ford The Golden K. Kiwanis Club’s weekly meeting was filled with members and members’ spouses to hear T. Moffatt Burris who gave an account of the Army’s 504 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division to Europe and North Africa during WWII. Burris was a company commander and a platoon leader. He has made many parachute jumbs, one when he was 75 years old. He also celebrated his 90th birthday last year jumping out of an airplane in a re–enactment of the Operation Market Garden, a military maneuver that took place September and October, 1944. Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation fought in the Netherlands and Germany.

Burris’ children encouraged him to write about his experiences and the result was Strike and Hold, which is available in bookstores in Columbia.