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2007 Memorial Day AT THE ITALIAN CLUB CEMETERY |
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Speech Delivered By Admiral Toscano, Italian Navy Memorial Day Ceremony At The Italian Club Cemetery
May 27, 2007 |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, distinguished guests, first let me thank the president and the Italian Club Cemetery members for giving me the privilege to make a speech on this special day.
Today we are here to observe the Memorial Day, a day in which we commemorate the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. We mourn for them. We mourn the lives unlived, the unrealized potential. The broken Families. The lost dreams.
And we are here to thank them for all that they have done, and the ultimate sacrifice they made, so that we can live in peace and freedom.
We are here to honor the fallen by leading good lives in their name. We are here to lead the lives they could not live, and thank them for making all of this possible for us.
As an Italian I can’t help thinking of the thousands of US soldiers who willingly gave their lives during the World War II permitting the rebirth of my Country and the saving of thousands of innocent lives.
In these years we are still struggling to try to make our world a better place. Still men and women in uniform today, who maintain alive the same virtues that incited the sacrifice those who are buried here, are doing their best to bring prosperity and freedom all around the world and even today men and women are giving their lives for this. We must be proud of them and we must let them know that they will always have our full and unconditional support.
On this special day we celebrated the Mass and we know that those who made the ultimate sacrifices are up there and are looking at us hoping not to be forgotten. Today our hearts are together to let them feel strongly that they indeed did not fall in vain.
DIO BENEDICA I CADUTI DI TUTTE LE GUERRE GOD BLESS THE FALLEN SOLDIERS
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