A 79-year-old Vietnam War veteran from Ohio is finally receiving his high school diploma decades after leaving school.
Urvin Hartsock, 79, of Johnstown, Ohio, left high school in 1961 to take a job at a local steel plant where he worked for a year before being laid off. His next move was joining the U.S. Army.
After serving three years in Korea during the Vietnam war, he came back to Ohio – now with a family of his own, per WBNS.Hartsock participated in his America Legion post’s “Pancake Day” in 2016 and told the outlet he had been responsible for mixing the batter before the post switched to an electric drill., he helped the post hold a class to teach participants how to respond to both manmade and natural disasters.
However, until this year, he never realized his father’s dream for him: earning a high school diploma, per WBNS.However, Dr. Phillip Wagner, superintendent of the Johnstown-Monroe School District, learned about Hartsock’s situation and saw a way to remedy it, per WBNS.
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