Bob D Antonio sat waiting for the start of the Saracini-O Neill Atlantic City 9/11 Memorial Day event thinking about how far support veterans has come.
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It was just over 80 years ago that the Yanks arrived in Britain, America s youth flooding across the Atlantic in their hundreds of thousands. Great swathes of eastern England became Little Americas.