California School District Refuses To Give Vietnam Veteran His Diploma After 50 Years

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The bullet busted through his boot and pierced his heel. Fifty years later, he remembers how badly it burned.

Still, he was able to spot the enemy and give coordinates to two Cobra helicopters and the infantry. It was April 1969 in a firefight outside My Tho in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Ken Weiner, a Purple Heart and Air Medal with Valor winner, was 18 then. He still doesn’t sleep all the way through at night. “I get nervous,” said Weiner, who lives in Murrieta.

He is still fighting.

His battle today is for his pride, and his opponent is the Long Beach Unified School District.


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