89-year-old WWII veteran receives high school diploma 7...

According to WZZM, Erwin Empie left Cedar Springs High School in Kent County, Michigan, when he was a sophomore to serve in World War II. From 1944 to 1946, he was a 2nd Class Seaman in the Navy.

Empie "always felt incomplete and unfinished" without his diploma, he told WZZM. So seven months ago, he decided to change that.

"I just looked out in the audience, then raised my fist," he told WZZM. "I almost lost my emotions then."

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