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Farewell Sergeant

On June 16, Mario Rigoni Stern has died aged 86, "left his bones" in the "mountains" in Asiago, encircled, and I would say rightly so, by his family.
In this post I thought to do some miserable personal observation on the work of the most popular writer, but then I found it totally useless because they do not even know if, except perhaps in the schools of Vicenza, do you still read Sergeant in the snow.
If my fears were justified, even before worrying about the contents of the book, one might ask: Who needs a "memory"? What sense does have all those dates as a reminder of the significant events, often tragic, as January 27, April 25 or February 10, though many boys, come out of high school, they know vaguely what happened in the first half of the twentieth century and known only through the second half of the spy novels (to be optimistic).
Who are those occasions, for my grandfather? I hardly even remember what it's called, but can tell the days of captivity as if they were yesterday. For the dead? Which continue to be produced for the same reasons. For us? So that we make a feast day or more than one, if we have the ass to put a bridge.

Obviously I do not know an answer, I know is that the dates are of little use, are a facade and a half if there is a holiday to forget as soon as they heard. A book like the one written by Rigoni Stern (and how others end up in oblivion), however, serve much purpose: it serves to better understand what coldly tells us the history textbook and serves as a starting point for those who have often heard of the Second World War, but has studied in the last seven days of school because: "Damn, that account for the exam?" is used because it does not explain the causes and ideologies behind the events of the time, but it tells a 'unvarnished experience that perhaps can instill in readers the desire to know more about the circumstances.

Finally my usual rant I also remember the work play entitled "The Sergeant" by Marco Paolini, so well done and felt to be able to convince Mario Rigoni Stern to attend in person to the show, going down, perhaps for the last time, from his beloved mountains.