Joe Caminiti, World War II, Iwo Jima survivor and Bristol native, turns 99 today. Caminiti has been asked to ring the Bell of the U.S.S. Kidd to honor veterans at this year’s Veterans Day Ceremony to be held at the Rockwell Theater. The ceremony will take place Nov. 11 at 11 am. It is open to the general public. Here is pictured receiving a portrait painted in his honor, one of the first of a national program to create portraits of WW II veterans.

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