Compton, Los Angeles and Placentia Post Office Branches will receive the renaming honors for local fallen vets
Military heroes are getting post offices named after them as President Joe Biden signs renaming bills to honor the fallen vets.In Compton, Biden signed a bill that will rename the post office at 101 S. Willowbrook Ave. as the PFC James Anderson Jr. Post Office Building.
He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 1968, becoming the first Black Marine to earn that recognition Cruz enlisted in the Marines at age 17 so he could fight in World War II, with the permission of his mother. His remains were deemed unrecoverable for 77 years, but they were finally identified and returned home to Los Angeles last year for a burial with full military honors.
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