Veterans young and old honored at Redondo Beach Veterans Day Service

When Christopher Batiste, a 29-year-old Army E-6 from Inglewood, served his first tour inIraq, he had no communication with his family for 12 months. “I was basically pen-pals with my wife,” Batiste said last week in an interview. During his second tour, he was able to communicate with her and his children via Skype, but communication was st