[caption id="attachment_425835" align="alignnone" width="450"]U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George H. W. Bush (R) applaud during an event to honor the winner of the 5,000th Daily Point of Light Award at the White House in Washington July 15, 2013.
Credit: Reuters[/caption] Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush plans to mark his 90th birthday with a skydive in Kennebunkport, Maine, on Thursday with a group of U.S. Army veterans. [related tag="George-H.W.-Bush" limit=3] "It's a wonderful day in Maine - in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump," said the 41st U.S. president, who first jumped from an aircraft almost 70 years ago when he was shot down over the Pacific Ocean during World War Two. Bush, the father of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush, has been celebrating birthdays with occasional skydives for years and marked his 75th and 80th birthdays with jumps. In 2009, when he jumped to mark his 85th birthday, his son then-President Bush said: "I think he's a nut to jump." Skies in Maine were heavily overcast with little wind on Thursday.
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