few days ago I received the usual e-mail "in Palermo if you ..."
Among the many amusing nonsense, there was a phrase that struck me so much:
"Six of Palermo ... if you remember where you were well and with whom May 23, 1992."
I remember it like it was yesterday.
was Saturday, the school was ending and, like any self-respecting teenager, I began to enjoy the taste of the days free.
I remember being around the Vespino together with a classmate (who knows what happened ...).
We were near Piazza Giotto.
At one point I looked around, amazed by such a strange stillness, a silence never heard that almost broke his eardrums and then ...
Hell of sirens and helicopters ...
The few people on the street had strange faces or so it seemed.
I asked my friend to take me back home immediately.
"There's something strange, I do not like"
got home I opened the door and not even said hello:
"What happened?"
"They killed Falcone" was the chilling answer to my mother.
I can not express in words the feeling the chill.
A neighbor told us that shortly after having traveled that stretch of highway just before, he had heard the explosion ...
The day of the funeral I also wish I was in Piazza San Domenico, but I was alone, my companions preferred to go home, it rained.
I went home too, I watched them on television and cried.
do not know how I cried, but I thought I had done well not to go, at home I could vent my pain better than in a crowded square.
Today I could not attend the event, and I'm sorry.
But I would say mine.
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Francesca Morvillo, Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Di Cillo, Vito Schifani, Emanuela Loi, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Cosina, Claudio Troina and all men and women who lost their lives fighting the mafia are not owned by anyone, can not and should not be bandied about as banners by parties or by members of the parties, when they were alive or have not done anything really made too little to make them continue to live and work.
Their memory is a legacy to each of us, each in Italian, Sicilian each, each Italian.
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