JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Joliet Central High School has awarded honorary diplomas to two Vietnam War veterans who joined the military before they were able to graduate.
Greg Warren and Donald Boyer finally received their diplomas Tuesday night at a school board meeting during a ceremony honoring their service. The director of alumni relations tells the Herald-News that the men were the 58th and 59th veterans to be awarded high school diplomas by the school district after serving in the military.
Warren enlisted in the Marines in December 1967 after he was convicted of a crime and was told he couldn’t return to Joliet Central. He would’ve graduated in 1968.
Boyer wanted to continue his family’s military tradition, so he enlisted in the Army in early 1968. He was set to graduate in 1969.
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