But this year I feel I must write something about this Memorial Day.
My thoughts go to those people who take on the hard shoulder the burden of memory. These are the people who have lived the death camps, with personal losses and unspeakable now become witnesses in the forefront of what has been committed by a civilized part of Europe against their fellow during the years of the first half of the twentieth century .
I think I can write short, because I know one such person.
G., released from that hell, he continued to live, he boldly built a family with children, has lived a life fully engaged into the fabric of society, trying to be as normal as possible and to live normally, despite happened.
Like many other has lived for years carrying within them the memory, however, trying to ensure that this memory will not put up too much of his life and his loved ones. For years - and what he told me - did not do much to speak publicly about it, a little 'for self-protection, a bit' because there were other witnesses to remember.
Today, however, people who are able to witness are less and less personal reasons. And he began to feel the need to tell. Almost
an inner imperative of "if there is nobody who can do so, I think I have to do that. "
In these days was close to" tour ". It 'was called from all parts of Italy to remember, to tell. Associations, Schools, Cultural Centi, municipalities, to invite all to listen to interview, to film.
I believe that nobody can imagine what must be hard to remember what happened and having to record every time in front of strangers. having to sacrifice their privacy in the name of a "mission".
to dedicate this the poor and concise thinking of Memorial Day to G., imagining what it must be tired today, and hope we can rest for a well earned rest next to people he loves (as long as he man enviable energy, is able to stop and rest).
At the same time I hope you feel very proud of himself.
I, for what can count, I'm proud of him and I am sure many of us to be proud and grateful memory of witnesses like him.
As can be used, it is right that G. if she heard him say. Hoping is not perturbed by this further intrusion into his sensibility.
In these years, I realize how important it is to pass on the memory for our children to avoid or try to avoid the horrors of hate and ignorance proved that man is able to commit.
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