In early December each year, the American Legion Post and Veterans of Foreign Wars chapters in Barnegat Township hold a Pearl Harbor remembrance day at the municipal dock. But what made the Sunday, Dec. 8 event extra special was that the ritual of tossing a memorial wreath into Barnegat Bay was performed by two World War II veterans – Walter Augustyniak and Lester Erbe, ages 100 and 97 respectively, and both members of the VFW post.
A U.S. Marines Corps veteran, Augustyniak turned 100 in September.
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