Miyamura has first graduation
The class of 2011 lines up before making the march into the main gym for the first Miyamura High School Graduation in Gallup on Saturday. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

Korean war hero gives out medals to graduates

By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — It was a day of surprises Saturday for the man Miyamura High School was named for as well as the school’s first graduates, who received something no one in the history of Gallup graduations ever received.

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