From the March 4, 2014, New York Daily News "Vietnam veterans trying to save school's damaged relics from WWI, Civil War" by Jennifer H. Cunningham.
Three historic cannons and a British naval deck gun are at the Bronx Community College in New York.
Brothers Kevin and Bill Farrell, both 61, are trying to secure the $200,000 needed to restore the World War I-era German cannons, a Civil War Dictator Mortar and another gun rusting away outside on the campus since 1920.
There is also a mast donated to the school by Sir Thomas Lipton to commemorate the site of Fort No. 8 (1776-1782) The mast is an 89-year-old flagpole from the Shamrock IV which sailed in the America's Cup competition.
--Old Secesh
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