HONESDALE (AP) — A World War II veteran in Pennsylvania who just got his high school diploma says he's grateful to have it, even if it's not going to help him get a job at this point.

Robert Dexter, who's 88, was awarded the degree by the Wayne Highlands School Board in a ceremony Tuesday night.Dexter says he enlisted in the Navy in 1944, when he was a 17-year-old junior at Damascus High School.He returned to his hometown of Damascus when he was discharged in 1948 and started a family and a bottled gas business.He says son was the "instigator" in getting him the diploma.Dexter says he's honored and does appreciate the effort and adds: "maybe if I was looking for a job, it would help. But I don't want one!"