FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - One of the oldest survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack was buried at Arlington National Cemetery this week. Florida resident Joseph Iscovitz was 103-year-old when he died last year.
“With all the turmoil going on in our nation, it will be an honor to have my dad buried at Arlington among the many heroes in our nation’s history,” his son Doug Iscovitz said.
The ceremony was held at Fort Myer Chapel on Monday, followed by the burial that the younger Iscovitz called “a celebration of a life lived to the fullest.”
Doug Iscovitz says his father could see the faces of the Japanese pilots as they dropped bombs around the naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1941. Joseph Iscovitz was a supply sergeant who oversaw weapons. His son says they were woefully unprepared for the attack and feared a land invasion. He said his father helped put barbed wire along Waikiki Beach.
Iscovitz also fought in the Korean War. His wife died in 2000 after 56 years of marriage. He is survived by four sons.
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