100-year-old World War II vet celebrated at Arcadia Catholic school

At the conclusion of its Veterans Day event at Holy Angels School in Arcadia, hundreds of students stood up, American flags clutched in their hands, and sang “God Bless America.”

Partway through the song, someone handed a flag to Joe “Peppy” Sciarra, a World War II veteran invited to the ceremony, who went ahead and waved the flag and sang along himself, a smile plastered on his face.