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Marine graduates from Gainesville High 40 years later
Self-proclaimed 'knucklehead' gets diploma after long military career
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David Dukes and Fletcher Law celebrate Friday afternoon at The Collegiate Grill in downtown Gainesville. Dukes never finished high school as he joined the military before graduation. At the Gainesville High graduation later in the evening Dukes was presented a Veteran’s Diploma from GHS.
While his friends and classmates were wearing caps and gowns and receiving high school diplomas on graduation day 1977 at Gainesville High School, David Dukes wasn’t there. He hadn’t earned the credits needed to graduate. “I was just a knucklehead to tell you the truth,” Dukes said in an telephone interview with The Times this week.