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TIL Jack Lukas, USMC Medal of Honor recipient at the age of 17 jumped on 2 grenades. Had 20+ surgeries and 200+ pieces of shrapnel removed, and lived. Then at age 40, jumped out of an airplane and his parachutes didn’t open, and walked away. Still keep going until Leukemia took him at the age of 80.


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