793 dead today. Mostly elderly people, but that does not change the tragedy of such a number.
I feel for all these people as I never felt for anybody else.
Especially Bergamo. Bergamo is a strange city. Wonderful, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Small, at the feet of the Alps, with a fairly large province climbing up the mountains.
Almost everybody, until the end of military conscription, was an Alpino there.
Tough, silent and generous people, they have an extremely strong religious feeling. Wherever you go around the world and find missionaries or people working for non-political NGOs, if there are Italians, there will be an over-average percentage of them.
I'm from Milan, a few kilometres from Bergamo, and know them very well.
We always argue, as it is usual in our country, where we have the so called "bell tower feeling", which makes you consider everyone far from your small circle an outsider. But we respect them, and so do they with people from Milan.
Today I want to tell the whole world that we, here, all feel for them.
SIAMO TUTTI BERGAMASCHI, FRATELLI!!!
Thanks for sharing this message and for any support you can give this people.
They are great mountain people. They deserve every inch of solidarity we can give them.
BROTHERS!

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Quote Originally Posted by Aragorn243 View Post

My wife on the other hand is out of luck unless she suddenly develops an interest in military history.
Poor gal...
I'm sure my wife feels for her...