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May 23, 2009 11:35 am US/Central

WWII Veteran Gets High School Diploma

MAYVILLE, N.D. (AP) ― One of the newest graduates at Mayville-Portland-Clifford-Galesburg High School is a man who last attended school 68 years ago.

Eighty-three-year-old Kenneth Olson on Friday received an honorary diploma awarded to military veterans who went to war rather than to a classroom.

The Breckenridge, Minn., resident served in the Philippines during World War II, working on Navy PT boats.

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Mayville is about 60 miles northwest of Fargo.

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