The last veteran survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Ray Chavez, is getting a California post office named after him posthumously.
President Donald Trump signed the bill last week, authorizing the “Ray Chavez Post Office Building” in Poway, a San Diego suburb.
Chavez died in 2018 at the age of 106 after a battle with pneumonia. He was aboard a Navy minesweeper, the USS Condor, which reported sightings of a Japanese submarine before the Dec. 7, 1941, attack, NBC News reported.
“I still feel a loss,” Chavez said during a 2016 ceremony marking the attack’s 75th anniversary. “We were all together. We were friends and brothers. I feel close to all of them.”
Chavez died of pneumonia just two months after visiting the White House in May 2018.
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