The family of World War II veteran Marvin Minter, including former Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, accepted his high school diploma nearly 80 years after the former truck driver’s service in the U.S. Army.
Minter died in 2000 at the age of 76. He served in the Army from 1943-1945, according to a news release from the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. During Minter’s time in the military, he served as a member of the Third Army under General George S. Patton, working as a truck driver light. As part of the Red Ball Express, Minter supplied resources to Allied forces after the primary D-Day landing.
Following the war, Minter worked for the Internal Revenue Service in San Bernardino before becoming a small-business owner in South Central Los Angeles.
Minter’s daughter, Brown, and her family gathered Dec. 16 at the Dorothy Inghram Learning Center in San Bernardino to accept Minter’s diploma and a medal as part of the 16th annual Operation Recognition Veterans Diploma Project presented by the Superintendent of Schools and San Bernardino County veterans affairs department.
Since 2009, the diploma project has honored 300 residents of San Bernardino County who missed completing their high school education due to military service in WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, or due to internment in WWII Japanese-American relocation camps.
