Inland Empire parachutist ‘Shorty’ Stark always understood the gravity of his actions – Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Herbert “Shorty” Stark leaped out of an airplane above Lake Elsinore in the fall of 1976, parachuting to safety as his friends applauded the 67-year-old’s daring.
This just wasn’t some old guy checking off a box on his bucket list of lifetime adventures. Actually, it wasn’t anything very unusual for Stark who had done it before maybe a couple of thousand times.
The jump,…….