 Kate Ryan, WTOP News. A Canadian World War II vet celebrates his 100th birthday by doing something he hadn't done in a very long time. The last time Canadian Ed Marshall jumped out of a plane, he was 20, training as a paratrooper during World War II. This time Marshall was 100 years old, skydiving for another cause. The tandem jump with the Canadian Armed Forces raised money for the hospital for sick children in Toronto.