Applications are being accepted for Operation Recognition, a program that provides high school diplomas to United States veterans and Japanese-American citizens who were unable to finish high school due to wartime circumstances.

“We have been privileged to honor local veterans with retroactive and posthumous diplomas for more than a decade now,” Solano County Superintendent of Schools Lisette Estrella-Henderson said in a statement. “We look forward to this special day each year because these diplomas mean so much to the veterans and families who receive them. Being able to say thank you from the Solano County community means so much” to the Solano County Office of Education.

Source: Applications being taken for Operation Recognition diploma program