WHY TO STICK?

NEVER FORGET THEM....

A day to be devoted to the Memory
of all the Heroic died Fighters or lost
 
 
 

 
Dr. Valerio Burattin
Inventor

     And President of the association 
 
 
 

                
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 You is 
  As 
   In autumn 
     On him    
       Trees 
         The leaves 
 
 
             Joseph    
                  Ungheretti 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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To remember doesn't mean to promote the hate and the war 
 
The memory is not for the Peace for the grudge 
 
   The memory is for honoring and to prevent the to be repeated himself/herself/themselves of useless tragedies 
             
 To recall is to make to live for ever them  
  
  To recall is to hand down the history, the sacrifices, the deeds 
 
    To recall is not to want to exalt the war but the Peace 
 
       To recall is for not forgetting killing them to them one  
       second time 
     
Whereas the places are intact in the centuries, when the man has them so left and the nature has not modified them,  the memories quickly disappear for wanting of whom disinterest of it and doesn't promote her actively using himself/herself/itself hiding himself/herself/itself behind the false justification of our days and our daily way of living,  
becoming so accomplices and craftsmen of the destruction of the history, of the so many sacrifices and corpses that have built her and therefore of our past. 
Valerio Burattin
______________________________________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Because….
 
 
Whether to devote eight minutes to the reading of these pages. 
Whether to devote twenty minutes to the reading and close examination of the site 
Because one day devoted to their memory.  
Because a historical evoking  
Because each of us should feel in his/her inside be born the desire to want somehow to act lavishing himself/herself/itself… 
 
Because themselves wrote us not to forget them and they asked him/it in the full awareness to run into the death. The fear and the fear that theirs sacrifices you/he/she was frustrated because easily forgotten by the poster and them family it frightened them as much as the certainty of their same death. I quote a letter to confirmation, from all known and that it is present in the museum of the Leiten, found after fifty years in the pockets of the buried orderly from his/her fellow soldiers and datum for lost which Fallen in battle. Soaked today still by the blood of his/her Lieutenant visible, these he/she left to us a warning…  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ADOLFO FERRERÒ
Alpine lieutenant

Dear parents, 
I write this sheet in the hope that is not need to do you him to reach. I cannot do without it. The danger is serious, imminent. I would have remorse if I didn't devote to you these instants of liberty, to give you a last regard. 
 
You know that hate the rhetoric... No, no, it is not rhetorical that that I am doing. I feel in me the life that complains his/her part of sun; I feel my counted times, I presage a glorious, but horrendous death. 
 
In five hours here it will be a hell. Earth will quiver, the sky will darken him, a dense haze will cover every thing and rhombuses and boom they will play again among these mountains, dark as the explosions that I feel in distance in this same instant. The sky is made cloudy: it rains. 
 
I would like to tell you so many things... so many.... but You imagine you him. I love You all, all.... I would Give a treasure to be able to see again you... But I am not able... my blind destiny doesn't want. I think of these last hours of apparent calm, to you, Dad, to you, Mother, that occupy the first place in my heart; to you, Joe, innocent little boy, to you, Nina... That debbo to say? The word misses me: a cozzar of ideas, a jumble of pleased and of sad ghosts, an atrocious presentiment they remove from me the expression... No, No, it is not fear. I am not afraid! I feel me touched, thinking about You, to how much I leave, but I know to show me strong in front of my soldiers, calm and smiling. After all also they has an ethic elevated. When you will receive this writing, made to deliver you from a good soul, you don't cry. You are strong as I will have known how to be him/it me. A dead child in war has never died. My name stays carved in the mind of my brothers; my military suit, my trusted gun (if you/he/she will be delivered), jealously preserved, is to testimony of my glorious end.  
 
And if for fortune I will be earned me a medal, rests that to Joseph. 
Or parents,  
 languages, speak,  
among a few years, when they will be able to understand you, to my little brothers, of me,  
died to twenty for the Country.          
 Their languages of me;  
strive to wake up again you in them the memory of me...  
What the thought is painful to be forgotten by them...  
Among ten, twenty years won't perhaps know more than to have had me brother... 
 
To I address me to you. Pardon, pardon I ask you, if I have made you suffer, if I have given you sorrows. Believe him/it, it was not for malice. my inexperienced youth has made you bear some worries: I beg you to want to forgive me... Bare of this terrestrial life I will go to enjoy of  
that good that I believe to be deserves me. To you, Dad and Mother, a kiss, an alone kiss that says the whole mo affection. To Joe, to Nina another and a warning: remember your brother. Sacred it is the religion of the corpses. You are good. My spirit will be always with you.  

To You I leave every substance of mine. Thing is little. I want however that I/you/he/she am jealously from You preserved. To Mother, to Dad I leave... my immense affection. It is the most respectable memory that I am able them to leave. To aunt Eugenia, the silver Crucifix; to my uncle Giulio, my gold Madonnina. it will certainly bring her. My uniform to Joe as the weapons and my stuffs. The portfolio (L. 100) I leave him/it to the orderly. 
An ardent kiss of affection from your aff.mo 
Adolfo  
Died later the day in the Battle of the Ortigara 

You observes here now attentively the photo under. A lot of among these Alpine ones unfortunately they are deceased in the Battle of the Ortigara. they look Us asking us… 

What do you want to do of all of us?
Do you want to forget us?

 
 
 
 An enormous responsibility ours.  To us it is up to therefore to keep on making to live their Memory, their sacrifice, our history.
They looks and they is waited and they ask us all this…
 
One of the as motives this that should push each of us to participate in the different initiatives, what following moment of a reflection. Just to never forget them. Don't let these and thousand other fears and words disperse himself/herself/themselves with to spend some time losing so the values and the history. And the Heroic Fighters. 
 
It observes as, with to spend some years the new generations, different from ours, they start to quickly lose these values. We would be able them "some" also to justify, not having guilts of this, since today nobody explains them and it hands down, as they knew how to animately do with love and passion and minutely, our Grandparent and Parents involving us deeply. Today, the few pages of history "you study" to school, they don't succeed in the intents and hastily forgives him in the memories of the students, forced to learn her as an obligation and not a pleasure of learning knowledge and culture. Factors these that are essential to be able to respect our past, our history, our Country. 
  
It was and it is in action a dangerous interruption of this to hand down, that each and You of us have to do somehow load intervening as soon as possible possible. This with the purpose to prevent that our historical roots, our cultural identities, the value of Country, so suddenly comes you tear making burnt earth. Throwing and squandering therefore an inestimable patrimony founded upon human sacrifices, losing the sense than happened and the motives that brought them to consume their life for all of us, among thousand sacrifices and first difficulty suffered among the mud, the cold, the sun, the rain, the hunger, the snow, the impervious mountains.  
 
For this each of us should feel to be born in if the awareness to have to act so that to allow all the future generations to understand, to reflect, and not to forget, how much they made for them his/her own Ancestors (Bisnonni/Trisnonni, our Grandparent).   
Because has to assimilate its true values, founded upon the solidarity, mutual respect, help, availability and effected renouncements one for the other. Because they can hand down to them it turns sewing the interruptions in the meantime it intervened so that to avoid that these can drastically continue up to cancel forever definitely their memory.  
 
Because is proud and brings respect in these places, going more and more numerous to visit the Shrines and the zones that knew and the horrors of a war lived fought palm palm, in assaults to the bayonet with machine guns that shot to the height of man. in front of the Fallen ones… 
 
And' believable that can exist today someone who wants to personally take on him the responsibility not to reflect avoiding to act which consequence also removing it so a root of the history?  
 
For the Heroic Fighters are waited instead that we remember them to us in the centuries to come.  If we didn't act maintaining their Memory does live, their values, then each of us with which mind and spirit it would face on November 4 or one any other demonstration and recurrence, or with which spirit it would look at the Shrine of the Laiten, of the Unknown warrior or an any other Shrine or Cemetery that contains the Heroic bare of all the Fighters that lost their life? These contain in them those lives of young people and less that a broken future they dreamt then, and what time they ask us to be their thankful remembering how much they did for us and for the Country.  
 
From up there the Heroic Fighters they look us judging attending us from us all this.  
 
They are themselves in fact that they now ask us to be us you Introduce, because we know how to use us and to make us available what our duty to hand down their values and the history in virtue of these events to them devoted.  
 
 
 
 
 
Each of us can say this way, fierce and proud in the to be used him in the different possible ways to answer them… 
PRESENT.
I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU.
 
 
 
 
 
 Because the words brought in the Cut-off Column of the Ortigara, symbol of us Alpine you leave in 1920 from the Legionaries survived of the Great War, we are not us for first today to disperse breaking up her to her in the years depriving her so of their value and meaning 
 
  The intent of this synthetic illustration has been that to succeed in transmitting the spirit and the wish that have to animate each of us in to use us to hand down the Memory and the history. And' the spirit of all us and of the association not to forget.  This because the actual and future generations that few or nothing know, can understand, valorizing her with pride bringing the deeds of it with respect and emotion.  
 
 
For the Heroic Fighters are waited by everything this of us because we are us to have to tell them now….. 
 
PRESENT
 
I leave therefore now to the Reader for how much here statement synthetically, to decide what he/she will want to make of this whole Historical Patrimony founded upon the sacrifice of an infinity of dead men in battle.  (among which could be even a proper Grandfather or Relative or Legionary or Ancestor). it will now Be able, in fact, freely to choose… 
      
If he/she will want to exempt one being found any futile justification,  
or he/she will want to stick actively participating you using himself/herself/itself    
   how much more to hand down.  
     If he/she will want to make to live them in the centuries  
        or if he/she will want to forget betraying them to them 
           if he/she will want, thanks to the day and event,  
to hand down its Memory so that all the future generations know and respecting hands down          
          with pride, or he/she will want to be a craftsman        
      what it will contribute to avoid that there am a continuity in the history eradicating shortly the roots so that doesn't exist anymore  
 

Each of us deciding what he/she will want to do it will face  
 
a Laiten and the mountains that he/she anchors contain in them the missing and with the over… 
 
37.164.404 of Total Losses On 
 
   
65.418.801 mobilized General 
 
   
8.488.831 
THE CORPSES  
   
20.985.261  
THE WOUNDED  
   
7.766.419 
THE PRISONERS IT IS LOST 
 
Among these they were you inclusive   
 
650.000 
DIED ITALIAN 
   
947.000 
HURT ITALIAN 
 
 
 
600.000 
AMONG IMPRISONED IT IS LOST ITALIANS 
 
 

 
Because at the end it will be with them in fact that we will personally have to compare us in to furnish an answer in worth to an own decision taken in to want him or less to use for allowing the transmission of the Memory, of the huge tragedy and of the uselessness of the use of an any violent demonstration. 
 
Thanks 
What President of the association not to forget… I sincerely thank all those people who will have understood such initiative and you/they will have contacted us what consequence also only to receive further information. Numerous in fact they are the possibilities given for being able to stick you in the different existing formalities using himself/herself/itself, answering therefore positively to the Heroic Fighters.  
A thanks will go to all those people who will show to want to help us to bring forth the Memory and the different initiatives, allowing so that the history can hand down him to the future generations, for their heroic deeds not to go be dispersed A thanks if you will want to also recommend this site to others your acquaintances, friends, relatives etc. So doing you will also give way to others to reflect. 
A thanks also to attentively have read these pages. Now it will be possible to contact us, for Yours, for the Memory, our history, The Fallen ones that have built her with sacrifices, to transmit…. to give a succession to the high responsibilities left each other in inheritance from our Ancestors and reassumed in the clear ones and words it engraved in the Cut-off Column of the Ortigara, symbol for us Alpine:  
 
DON'T FORGET
 
 
 
 
 

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