Watch this veteran graduate from high school, 48 years later

The Washington Post 2016-06-18

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Retired veteran Ricardo Lopez got a standing ovation when he graduated from high school on June 12, decades after leaving El Paso, Tex., to fight in the Vietnam War.

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