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On NFL Sundays, there’s always the trite talk about football teams “going to battle” or “going to war.”

Suzanne Johnson, the wife of Jets owner Woody Johnson, is spearheading a critical project that makes what makes the Jets’ drama seem utterly trivial by comparison.

Johnson, who grew up in a Ukrainian neighborhood in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village after her father, Stefan Ircha, emigrated to the United States at age 21 following World War II from Ternopil, a town outside of Kyiv, is the brains, heart and soul behind a $1 million relief effort by the Jets to aid the Ukrainian people amid the senseless war taking place there.

“My father came to this country after World War II at 21 with like $5 in his pocket and not speaking English,” Suzanne Johnson told The Post. “He came to this country for opportunity after the war. He went through Red Cross, then to a local Ukrainian church that aided him in getting an apartment and brought him into the community.

“He met my mother [Marie] at a Ukrainian dance, got married and had their family. When I grew up, I grew up in a very solid Ukrainian community. I don’t thi

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