The Spirit of Princeton Committee welcomes the community to honor the nation’s veterans, as well as those young men and women still actively serving in the military, by attending the Veterans Day ceremony, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the All Wars Monument, at the intersection of Mercer and Nassau streets in Princeton Borough.
The program will feature community youth and active and retired military personnel.
Marine unit Battery G, Third Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment from the Trenton Marine Corps Reserve Center will provide a color guard and possibly a rifle detail.
The keynote speaker is Benjamin Cittadino, a former naval officer, a graduate of Duke University and currently an attorney in Lawrence. His son, Benjamin Jr., is a Navy F-18 fighter pilot serving his second Iraq-Afghanistan tour on the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Princeton Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman and Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand also will speak.
A section of the Blawenberg Band will perform before and after the ceremony with Dixieland music.
Madison Cahill-Sanidas, an eighth-grader from the John Witherspoon School and a member of the Princeton Girl Choir, will sing the National Anthem.
Brooks Dyer, a member of the Spirit of Princeton Committee, will emcee the event.
The Spirit of Princeton is a charitable, nonpartisan community organization dedicated to bringing the community together in civic awareness and celebration by organizing and sponsoring of four community events: Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day and Independence Day. For more information about how to participate in and support The Spirit of Princeton, go to www.spiritofprinceton.org.

