Corporal James Kiyabu died in 2014, regretting he did not continue his education after joining the Army in the aftermath of WWII, so officials in San Bernardino County this week posthumously awarded him with a high school diploma, presented to his son.
“Probably for the first 20 years of my life, pretty much all my dad ever talked about was education, and how one of his biggest regrets was that he never finished the first part of his education, to be able to go on to the second,” his son, Randy Kiyabu, said.2 Employees Of Kiddie Academy In Rancho Cucamonga Arrested After Baby Taken To Hospital With Skull Fracture
Kiyabu died in Apple Valley in 2014, but it was not too late for Operation Recognition Veterans Diploma Project. The program, a joint effort between San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools and the San Bernardino County Department of Veterans’ Services, awarded the late corporal with his high school diploma, which was accepted Thursday by his son.
Randy Kiyabu, who was the first in his family to graduate from college, said accepting his father’s high school diploma was “bittersweet.”Corporal Kiyabu is now one of 275 veterans in the county who have been honored and recognized by the project since 2009.
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