A weathered black-and-white photograph, dated 1933, helps explain why a long-running battle over a statue is personal for Nick Pirro, 86, and Anthony Ilacqua, 68.
That treasured picture shows 13 men—including Pirro’s father and Ilacqua’s grandfather—standing on a barge in a canal at Brewerton, near Syracuse, New York.
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