Vietnam Vets Who Left High School for Service Get Their Diplomas over Six Decades Later

Vietnam vets who left school for service get diplomas over six decades later

Muscatine, Iowa — When Dennis Snyder of Muscatine, Iowa, took his yearbook photos more than six decades ago, he thought he would be a member of the graduating class of 1963. “It’s hard to believe I was ever that young,” Snyder joked to CBS News. The summer before his junior year at Muscatine High School, the Vietnam War was heating up. Snyder volunteered to join the Navy. The 17-year-old Iowa farm boy was sent to a base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. …

Vietnam vets who left high school for service get their diplomas over six decades later

Operation Recognition is a program through the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs that's given more than 100 veterans a chance to receive their high school diplomas.

Vietnam vets in their 80s who left high school early to serve finally get their diplomas

… early to serve in the Vietnam War. Lana Zak has the …