Veterans, Officials Mark Pearl Harbor Anniversary
When Robert Myers heard that Pearl Harbor had been attacked, it wasn’t long before he traded in his life as a Van Nuys meat cutter for one aboard the USS Waupaca in the South Pacific.
“With the things that were happening in Europe and Asia, I didn’t want my [2-year-old] son growing up under the influence of what was going on,” said Myers, who spent four years in the Navy. “Someone had to make a stand.”
On Tuesday, Myers, past commander of American Legion Post 193 in Van Nuys, was master of ceremonies at the 4th Annual Veterans Memorial Service at the Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks Veterans Memorial Park, the 58th anniversary of the bombing.
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) told the gathering that veterans should be honored every day of the year.
He said he has co-sponsored bills to extend the veterans home loan program to those who served in the 1980s and ‘90s, and a bill that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to reimburse veterans for emergency care at non-VA facilities.
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