A dream recently came true for a 95-year-old World War II vet from Lyndhurst, New Jersey. As HsuTV reports, he finally has his high school diploma.
As CBS2's Cindy Hsu reported Thursday, he finally has his high school diploma.In 1945, when Garofalo was 18, he enlisted in the Navy just two weeks before his graduation, so never received his diploma. He served for one year and then came back home, got married, opened a store, and played the saxophone in a band.
"So he went to the board of [education] and they tried at that point to look for the records and they couldn't find them, so they really had no proof that he was actually a student at Lyndhurst High School," daughter Mary Pitera said. "I cried because I felt, I just felt so, so happy that it finally happened for him, because he said that's the only thing he's missing in his life. He's got everything else. He says, 'I have it all.' He goes, 'I just never got a diploma,'" Pitera said."He's a suit and tie guy," Pitera said with a laugh.
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