A 98-year-old WWII veteran was just honored with the Combat Infantryman Badge nearly 80 years late. Gregory J. Slavonic, acting undersecretary of the Navy, said the veteran should’ve received this honor decades ago. “The event that is happening here today is nearly 76 years late in coming,” he said during the award ceremony on Jan. 4 at Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, Connecticut. Daniel Crowley defended the Bataan Peninsula from invading Japanese forces, after which he was captured and kept as a prisoner of war. However, a technicality kept him from receiving the award that should’ve been his. According to AARP, Crowley was assigned to the U.S. Army Air Corps at Nicholas Field in 1941. But when Japan launched attacks on Pearl Harbor and other military facilities throughout the Pacific, Crowley was moved to the infantry. “He was a combat infantryman, but he didn’t sign up with combat …