[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 9, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E16]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           HONORING THE LIFE OF STAFF SERGEANT PETER EWANICK

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                         HON. SALUD O. CARBAJAL

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, January 9, 2018

  Mr. CARBAJAL. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to celebrate the life of 
Staff Sergeant Peter Ewanick. He was born May 23, 1919 to Ukrainian 
immigrants in Forestville, Pennsylvania. They were fleeing oppression 
and seeking a better life in America.
  Peter grew up in Evanston, Illinois, playing football and baseball in 
high school. In September of 1941 he enlisted in the United States 
Marine Corps, three months before the United States would enter World 
War II. He was part of an USMC special weapons platoon in two of the 
bloodiest battles in the Pacific, Tarawa and Okinawa. He was honorably 
discharged as a Staff Sergeant in December 1945.
  Peter Ewanick got a job in Los Angeles as a lineman for the Pacific 
Telephone and Telegraph Company, helping to build the microwave 
infrastructure across California's deserts and to install overhead and 
underground cables for the postwar population boom in LA. He married 
wife Joyce in 1958, and together they raised her children and their son 
together, Joel, in both Huntington Park and the San Fernando Valley.
  Peter Ewanick retired in 1981 as a splicing and construction foreman, 
having been responsible for the Wilshire District of Los Angeles. The 
couple moved to Santa Barbara in 2008. Peter was a lifetime member of 
the Elks Lodge and the Telephone Pioneers, and generally regarded as a 
good husband, a great role model, and a proud American veteran.
  Mr. Speaker, I am honored to join with the nation and the Ewanick 
family in celebrating this special life, which ended peacefully on July 
25, 2017.

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