Posted on 05/09/2019 2:13:47 PM PDT by DFG
A 91-year-old World War II veteran has finally received his high school diploma, eight decades after leaving school to support his family.
Pete Sabedra walked across the stage at Derry Area Middle School, about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, to accept his degree at a special awards ceremony on Wednesday.
His daughter-in-law put in a request for him to receive an honorary diploma from the school after a lifetime of hard work.
Speaking of his work on the railroads when he was a child, she said: 'The weight of the wheelbarrows loaded with the ballast and the moving of railroad ties would cause their hands to be split wide open every day.
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My dad was taken out of high school by the draft. Never finished. He would be 92 now.
PA ping!
Great story.
What a life!
my brother arranged for my father to go to a special graduation with other WW2 vets in Annapolis MD...my father attended Annapolis High...
it was a year or two before he died....
it meant a lot to him.....
Darn blurry screen.
There is some hope for this young generation.
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