A DREAM COME TRUE DIANE’S LEAP OF A LIFETIME At 89, Air Force Veteran Diane Anderson Finally Takes the Jump She’s Waited a Lifetime For. When Diane Anderson stood at the edge of the open plane door, 13,000 feet above the Indiana countryside, she wasn’t nervous. She was ready.
On June 27, Diane, an 89-year-old resident of Cedar Creek of Bedford, checked off a bucket list dream that had been waiting nearly 70 years to come true: skydiving. Thanks to Cedarhurst’s Dream Come TRUE program, Diane jumped out of a plane at Skydive Indianapolis, fulfilling a wish born during her service in the United States Air Force. “I’ve wanted to skydive since 1954,”
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she says with a confident smile. “I was in the Air Force back then, but I wasn’t in the airborne unit. It just depended on where you were needed. But it stayed in the back of my mind ever since.” So when Cedar Creek of Bedford Life Enrichment Director Shellie Tolbert asked residents what dream they would want to fulfill, Diane didn’t hesitate. “Jump out of a plane!” she said with her hand raised high. The morning of her jump began just like any other day—with a cup of black coffee. “I got up early and was just ready to go. I wasn’t nervous at all,” she recalls. “Standing at the edge of the door takes your breath away for a second, but then—adrenaline rush! That’s the only way I can describe it.” And it wasn’t
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