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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:20 PM Jun 2013

NY man, 97, gets diploma 8 decades later

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — It took nearly eight decades, but Frederick Gray is finally a high school graduate.

The Watertown Daily Times (http://bit.ly/11sOqdY ) reports that the 97-year-old World War II veteran was presented Monday with a diploma from Watertown High School during a ceremony at his northern New York home.

Gray was set to graduate in 1934 but dropped out a year early to get a job to help support his family during the Great Depression.

Gray worked in a factory before being drafted into the Army in 1942. He served in the 24th Infantry Division in the Pacific campaign, earning a Bronze Star.

Read more at http://news.yahoo.com/ny-man-97-gets-diploma-8-decades-later-135651685.html

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