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Battle of Britain recalled at Farmingdale ceremony
KEN ROSE wept, just for a moment, as he wrapped up his brief speech by quoting Winston Churchill's famous declaration during the Battle of Britain:
"Never was so much owed by so many to so few."
Rose, 83, a permanent U.S. resident, lives these days in East Meadow. But during that crucial phase of World War II, 70 summers ago, he was growing up in Ridgewell, England, 50 miles from London....
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