Memorial Day weekend always makes me proud to be an American. I’m always proud to be an American, but life and other petty shit seem to always get in the way of me stopping to think about the freedoms I’m allowed in this great country and the men and women (all better than me) who fight against injustices so I can get blacked out on the weekends in peace.
And stories like these make me want to shout my American-ness from a mountain top.
J.D. Sexton, a 93-year-old World War II veteran, was drafted in 1943 as a teenager. While his friends were finishing up school and starting families and careers, he was seeing combat in the Battle of the Bulge and was involved in the liberation of thousands of Holocaust victims.
He never had an opportunity to finish high school, and although he received his GED, he was missing an actual diploma from his high school in Highland Home, Alabama for sixty years. Until now.
J.D. told WishTV,
“It’s a wonderful thing to come up here and be with the people and to receive a diploma for high school education. Just appreciative of the Lord Jesus for letting me live to be 93.”
Hopefully there are many more birthdays to come.
[H/T Distractify]