Joe Perricone, of Tampa, Florida, and Bill William Arnold Craddock, of Church Hill, Tennessee, are a decade apart in age. They grew up in different areas, and seemingly don’t have much in common beyond both serving in the United States armed forces.
The pair share a unique bond, though, in that neither ended up officially graduating with their high school classes before enlisting to serve in their respective branches of the military. So this past weekend, they ended up both participating in a rather special moment when they each went back to their high schools to graduate—right around 70 years after they each left in the first place.
