Joseph Eskenazi is 104-years-old and he’s the nation’s oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor.
Thanks to the Gary Sinise Foundation, "Soaring Valor Program" — Eskenazi is now on a journey with eight other World War Two veterans as they ride on an Amtrak train from LA to New Orleans with the goal of visiting the National World War Two Museum and celebrating his upcoming 105th birthday.
"About an arms length, I saw a lot of dirt kicking up. They had shot me with a machine gun, they came very close to hitting me," he told FOX 11’s Gina Silva.
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