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103-year-old WWII veteran Cam Pelletier honored at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery's "Spirit of ’45" event.

Pelletier, a former Navy Seabee, laid a wreath to commemorate fallen U.S. military personnel.

The ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII.

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered ending World War II.

Now 103, Pelletier laid a wreath at the a memorial to fallen service members at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery in Mims to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of humanity's bloodiest war.

"The memories have faded, but they're there," said Pelletier, who said he hopes that future generations will remember the gravity of the wa

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