Retired U.S. Army Col. Aaron M. Dotson, a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, sits in his room in Hampton, Va., August 8, 2015. Dotson was drafted into the Army out of high school in 1943 and served in the enlisted corps until the end of the second World War, at which point he completed his diploma. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Natasha Stannard)