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My brother, Constantine “Gus” Socrates Savalas, can look back proudly at his long life. Now at 96, I want to tell America about him and all the wonderful veterans like him who have made our country great and safe.

I am submitting an article about him to honor him and all the veterans as we approach Dec. 7, the anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, a “Day of Infamy,” as described by then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941.

Gus is a survivor of Pearl Harbor and the sinking of his ship the USS Astoria in the battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.

He later became a belly gunner on a Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, whose losses were huge while flying low to destroy Japanese war ships and miraculously survived that battle, too, and many others.

He later went to Grumman Aircraft on Long Island through a special leave to a huge gathering of assembly workers to sing the “Lord’s Prayer.” Newsday reported that “there wasn’t a dry eye to be seen”.