War veteran graduates high school at 87
It’s
never too late to follow your dreams, and one war veteran is proving just that.
Eighty-seven-year-old
Ed Sanders, who fought in the Korean War, dropped out of high school to become
a pilot during the war. That was in 1952.
Almost
50 years later, the great-grandfather has received his high school diploma from
Jackson High School.
Sanders
is able to graduate high school because of a state act that permits school
boards to give diplomas to veterans of World War II, the Korean War or the
Vietnam War who left school to serve.
He
said, “I never dreamed I would be able to graduate. I’m so thankful for that.”
Initially,
he was training to be a B-47 bomber pilot and “Next thing I knew I was in
Korea, wishing I was back in Jackson.”
Sanders
was discharged in 1960 after serving four years on active duty and another four
as a reserve officer.
He
has three children with wife, Patricia, and five grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
