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Longest-surviving Pearl Harbor veteran to get post office named after him

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Two years after his death, the Navy veteran who became the oldest survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will have a post office named in his honor.

President Trump signed a bill Monday ordering the main post office in Poway, a San Diego suburb, to bear Ray Chavez’s name, according to NBC News.

Chavez was the last living survivor of the surprise attack that catapulted America into World War II when he died in 2018. He was 106.

He joined the Navy in 1938 and was aboard the USS Condor, a minesweeper, before Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the outlet reported.

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