Frankfort, Ky. ? Leroy Spaulding joined the Army in 1941, expecting his hitch to be only a short detour from finishing high school. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed those plans dramatically.

Back home after the war, Spaulding went to work, got married, raised a family and worked at a distillery until his retirement. But there was a nagging regret.

“I’d wished that I had gone through and finished up school,” said Spaulding, 79.

Now, the Kentucky General Assembly is considering legislation to give veterans the high school diplomas they never received.

School boards would be directed to award diplomas to honorably discharged veterans of World War II who left school to fight for their country, then never finished their schooling.