ROME - The Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome this morning surrounded by a gray stain. These are the currencies of the mountain waiting for the coffin, Luca Sanna, the last Italian crashed in Afghanistan, was killed last Tuesday in Bala Murghab. I'm serious, quiet, dignified. Also proud that Corporal Tolmezzo Battalion, Brigade, Julia, died in a distant country for a "peace mission" in which too many do not understand.A whale that above all, pride in the look of those Alpine Afghanistan have survived, but there have left legs, arms, injuries and disabilities that they will remember them forever to have paid a price for the country. Photo The solemn funeral of the Alpine mountain Luca Sanna The same accompanying the coffin on the shoulders of Luke in the basilica, we hear their anthem of the Alps.
Participate in the funeral highest civil and military, but is missing the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, after the Council of Ministers of moves from Palazzo Chigi at Palazzo Grazioli. A decision made at the last minute, seeing that everything was ready for the arrival of the premier.
In the church of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs at Piazza della Repubblica in Rome, comes the Secretary to the Prime Minister, Gianni Letta. Present, among others, the President of the Constitutional Court De Siervo, the President of Copasir D'Alema, the mayor of Rome Alemanno. Resounds in the church, harrowing pain of Daniela, just four months from the wife of Luca Sanna.
Just before the funeral, the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, visibly moved, greeted the widow of the Alpine for a few minutes talking to her, stroking her head to comfort her. As the coffin is placed before the altar of the Alpine, the young woman approached, crying, and lays a rose on the coffin, wrapped in the flag.
On a pillow, hat alpine and decorations of the military dropped. How to deal with so much pain? How to explain to this girl that the death of his Luke makes sense? We test Monsignor Vincenzo Pelvis, Archbishop military ordinary for Italy, in his homily. "None of our military wants to be a hero - says the religious -.
All want to return home to their families and their friends. But all do not hesitate to jeopardize their future, knowing that they can give their lives or remain marked . This is the real heroism of everyday military family. " "Of course - continues Monsignor Pelvis -, our Luca could not imagine that those who had feigned a choice similar to his, enlisting in the army of Afghanistan, could have betrayed him, hitting him in death, crushing his desire for friendship between peoples.
To Luca life has not been stolen, because he had already given. And we hope we will not steal, do not tear the love for the weakest and confidence in the Afghan people, despite this latest injury. And 'the Love that creates hope, which has been delivered from innocence betrayed. "" Our Luke in Afghanistan - continuing the homily - meant to be a friendly presence, eager to promote an exchange of gifts among simple people, humiliated and threatened in a conflict in which no one asks their opinion, except to require them to suffer and to suffer the dire consequences.
Luke had not understood that you win only with weapons and you do not win by importing certain cultural and political models. "" It was a mountain always smiling - recalls Monsignor Pelvis - he felt fulfilled in himself mysteriously invitation passionate and want to do well. His violent death could lead to the conclusion that deluded.
But such an order he had placed in the bill, because the man whose courage never failed, a soldier faced day after day, the risk of life, letting ourselves be overcome by kindness to the suffering people. "" The duty to build peace - is the reflection of the archbishop - not to be confused with a kind of inertia quietistic that is indifferent to injustice, accept any kind of disorder, compromise with error and evil, and yield to any pressure to maintain 'peace at any price'.
The Christian knows, or should know well that peace is not possible in similar terms. Peace requires more work 'heroic sacrifice and the more' difficult. It demands greater heroism of violence. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. "The funeral ended with the Prayer of mountaineering and the blessing of the coffin.
The coffin, wrapped in the flag, still leaves the church on the shoulders of fellow soldiers of Luke Sanna. The family members of soldiers, to whom the President Napolitano addresses a new and heartfelt greeting, followed by tightening of the chest photos of their loved one. The thunderous applause of the crowd gathered in Republic Square to break the silence.
And the journey begins Luca Sanna to his Sardinia. Samugheo Tomorrow morning, in the province of Oristano, country of origin of the soldier fell, the funeral will be held private.''We hope not to see more such occasions, because they are already too many,'''s only comment that the minister Roberto Calderoli issues outside the church.''It was a poignant ceremony, full of spirituality for the umpteenth Italian victims in Afghanistan, "said Undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Letta.
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