An officer in the British Army and a BASE jumping World Champion, performed a successful BASE jump from the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City on Monday morning.

Major Alastair Macartney, 37, parachuted from the 217 feet high structure to raise awareness for members of the Armed Forces, past and present, 99 years after the beginning of World War I. After jumping Macartney present a veteran of the Vietnam War with an American flag.