PFC John Eskenazi recalls Pearl Harbor during Redondo Beach Memorial Day Observance

Redondo Marine Corps Cadets retire the flab before its presentation to World War II veteran john Eskenazi. Photo by Kevin Cody
[ngg src="galleries" ids="2387" display="pro_mosaic"]by Kevin CodyBased on his newspaper readings, Private First Class Joe Eskenazi wondered why Pearl Harbor was on a Class B, and not a Class A alert.β€œThe base was like a country club,” the 103 year-old veteran recalled in remarks read by his grandson during a Memorial Day ceremony at Veteran’s Park in Redondo Beach. Eskenazi was a member of Company "C" of the 804th Engineers, assigned to Pearl Harbor to work on the neighboring Hick
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