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An Honor Guard for Haile Selassie
“Toritto” in Ethiopia at 23 – looking maybe 17! Once upon a time Toritto was a soldier; he spent four years of his life defending the nation against the evil empire. He married his prom date some 5 weeks after … Continue reading
Posted in family
Tagged Army Security Agency, Eritrea, Ethiopia, family history, haile selassie, history, honor guard, Italian, italo-ethiopian war, Kagnew Station, Mussolini
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Working Man
This must have been how it was to look down from a hillside orchard to see Reggio or Napoli shining below for the last time looking like acres of clean cardboard as he walked away with what he could carry … Continue reading
Posted in poetry
Tagged coal mines, exploitation, immigrant, Italian, Pennsylvania, Sandberg, Steinbeck, Studs Terkel, working man
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The “John the Baptist” of Fascism
Italians in Fiume cheering D’Annunzio in September 1919 . There murmur swarming through my drowsy head In this vast furnace of a summer day Relentless verses clamoring to be said, As beetles round a putrid carcass play. One doesn’t often … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Axis, corporatism, fascism, fascist poet, Fiume, Gabriele D'Annunzio, history, Hitler, irredentism, irrendist, Italian, literature, March on Rome, Mussolini, nationalist, poet, Regency of Carnaro, Rijecka, theater of Fascism, Vienna, World War l
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An Altar Boy of the Tridentine Mass
Introibo ad altare Dei I will go in unto the Altar of God. As a boy in the early 1950s I was an altar boy – of the Tridentine Mass. Yes, now they are referred to as alcolytes but in … Continue reading
Posted in family
Tagged 1950s, alcolyte, altar boy, Brooklyn, Catholicism, family, Italian, Italy, latin, personal, Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, St. Rosalia's R.C. church, story, the words, Tridentine Mass, world war II
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