"[Only] some of the people managed to make it home," Joyce said.
419 Cantabrigians died in the war.
Hugh G. Reid, a veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam, said getting his diploma after more than five decades was "fantastic."
"It took 50 years to get it," he said, chuckling.
Program emcee John Caulfield said that the veterans attending the ceremony were teenagers until the war intervened.
"All of a sudden the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the Germans declare war, they get up and go to war," Caulfield said. "They returned changed by their experience. They watched America change too."
In the 1940s, CRLS--formed by the 1977 merger of Cambridge High and Latin and Rindge Tech--did not exist. Instead, a fiery rivalry existed between Cambridge's two high schools.
Caulfield, a 1944 High and Latin graduate, jokingly renewed that rivalry--best exemplified in the schools' annual football game--yesterday.
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