88-year-old veteran gets high-school diploma

HONESDALE, Pa. -- A World War II veteran has just gotten his high-school diploma and said he's grateful to have it, even if it's not going to help him get a job. Robert Dexter is 88. He was awarded the degree by the Wayne Highlands School Board in a ceremony Tuesday. Dexter said he enlisted in the Navy in 1944, when he was a junior at Damascus High School. He returned to his hometown when he was discharged in 1948 and started a family and a bottled-gas business...