Port Jeff Students Perform at Calverton Cemetery

On June 18, music students Nicole Capobianco, Hayley Moir, Grace Napoli and Rebecca Spinner were invited to perform along with their choir teacher, Katie Bernius at the unveiling of the Purple Heart Monument at Calverton National Cemetery.

This coming December will mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing  at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the monument commemorates the soldiers killed and wounded during the attack.

"The monument will be the first in the continental United States dedicated to the 3,224 killed and 1,125 wounded during the attack at Pearl Harbor," said Frank Belsito of the American Legion Pearl Harbor Memorial Post 1941 during a committee meeting in the Suffolk County Legislature.

Belsito also helped to organize the commemorative ceremony and invited the Port Jefferson students to perform.

Guests at the unveiling included former assemblyman Mark Alessi, legislator Edward Romaine and many other dignitaries from the armed forces, including several Pearl Harbor survivors.

The high school students were an integral part of the ceremony, performing the National Anthem and other patriotic songs during the event.