ROME - In a solemn ceremony in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, in front of the highest offices of state, relatives and soldiers, has been awarded a final farewell to the captain of the explosion of a Lynx Ranzani died in Afghanistan to 37 years. The body wrapped in the Tricolour was escorted by a guard of honor composed of representatives of all the armed forces, the Army band and the notes of the song of the Mountain 'Lord of the peaks'.
To pay tribute to him was also attended by President Giorgio Napolitano before entering the coffin approached the father and the mother of the military and supported a hand on their shoulder in silence. PHOTO For the funeral of Captain of the Fifth Regiment Alpini Sterzing, also came the premier Silvio Berlusconi and Defense Minister, Ignazio La Russa, the chairmen of the House and Senate, Renato Schifani and Gianfranco Fini, President of the Consulta, Ugo De Siervo, the Minister Umberto Bossi, Roberto Calderoli, Giulio Tremonti, Matteoli, the governor of the Veneto, Luca Zaia, and the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno.
And the Secretary to the Prime Minister Gianni Letta, the Chief of Staff of Defense, Abraham. The wheelchair also the MP of the PDL Gianfranco Paglia, the paratroopers wounded in Somalia. On the coffin before the altar, there was the picture of the captain, alpine hat, the decorations, the saber.
"To friends, Massimo was confident that peace-building must watch children's eyes, read in the dream of beautiful things and new, because there are no Italian children, Afghan and other countries, there are only children, just as there many peaces are but peace, "said Monsignor Vincenzo Pelvis, military ordinary for Italy at the beginning of the homily was addressed to" dear mama Jole ", composed in the front row along with close relatives.
"Max was an alpine-looking smiling and brave. It 'was shot while returning from an operation for medical assistance, after distributing clothes, blankets, shoes and food," said the monsignor. "Peace requires a greater heroism of the war, greater fidelity to the truth. We are called to spend our life does not stop it," he added.
"Hope for Max, meant to believe in the impossible - said the monsignor during commissioning -. Move over, deny or escape the cry for help of others, you choose death, and worse yet, become the architect. To be open to 'acceptance of others, however, leaving upset, disturb, distract, is to be open to the newness of the love which make us accomplices.
" In his homily, the archbishop turned to the president thanking him warmly for his paternal closeness to our young soldiers "and, speaking to the mother of Lt. Ranzani, urging him to continue to be the mother of all in the Alpine His daily prayer, pointing instead to his father recalled the respect for the profession and the sharing of its maximum.
After the funeral, the coffin of Captain Ranzani was carried on the shoulders of his comrades out of the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, preceded by a wreath of the President of the Republic and the pillow over his hat and sword of Alpine . The last salute to the military dead in Afghanistan has been a round of applause. 
To pay tribute to him was also attended by President Giorgio Napolitano before entering the coffin approached the father and the mother of the military and supported a hand on their shoulder in silence. PHOTO For the funeral of Captain of the Fifth Regiment Alpini Sterzing, also came the premier Silvio Berlusconi and Defense Minister, Ignazio La Russa, the chairmen of the House and Senate, Renato Schifani and Gianfranco Fini, President of the Consulta, Ugo De Siervo, the Minister Umberto Bossi, Roberto Calderoli, Giulio Tremonti, Matteoli, the governor of the Veneto, Luca Zaia, and the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno.
And the Secretary to the Prime Minister Gianni Letta, the Chief of Staff of Defense, Abraham. The wheelchair also the MP of the PDL Gianfranco Paglia, the paratroopers wounded in Somalia. On the coffin before the altar, there was the picture of the captain, alpine hat, the decorations, the saber.
"To friends, Massimo was confident that peace-building must watch children's eyes, read in the dream of beautiful things and new, because there are no Italian children, Afghan and other countries, there are only children, just as there many peaces are but peace, "said Monsignor Vincenzo Pelvis, military ordinary for Italy at the beginning of the homily was addressed to" dear mama Jole ", composed in the front row along with close relatives.
"Max was an alpine-looking smiling and brave. It 'was shot while returning from an operation for medical assistance, after distributing clothes, blankets, shoes and food," said the monsignor. "Peace requires a greater heroism of the war, greater fidelity to the truth. We are called to spend our life does not stop it," he added.
"Hope for Max, meant to believe in the impossible - said the monsignor during commissioning -. Move over, deny or escape the cry for help of others, you choose death, and worse yet, become the architect. To be open to 'acceptance of others, however, leaving upset, disturb, distract, is to be open to the newness of the love which make us accomplices.
" In his homily, the archbishop turned to the president thanking him warmly for his paternal closeness to our young soldiers "and, speaking to the mother of Lt. Ranzani, urging him to continue to be the mother of all in the Alpine His daily prayer, pointing instead to his father recalled the respect for the profession and the sharing of its maximum.
After the funeral, the coffin of Captain Ranzani was carried on the shoulders of his comrades out of the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, preceded by a wreath of the President of the Republic and the pillow over his hat and sword of Alpine . The last salute to the military dead in Afghanistan has been a round of applause.
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