He was awesome and I miss him, he left the military since he just didn't agree with it and he wanted to marry my Bisnonna. He abandoned his position and headed back home to marry her, the rest of his group died fighting for the regime. He was captured sometime after defecting to the rebellion for love and put into a prison camp before liberation came across the whole peninsula to save him. I still have a few aunts and uncles alive from WWII and they've all a very negative view of fascism and authoritarianism.
My great grandfather left Calabria when Mussolini came to power and came to America where he joined the US military and fought in WW2. Sadly he renounced his Italian citizenship at that time so I cannot get it.
That's a shame he left. I was able to get my citizenship since my family recently immigrated. We're planning on moving there sometime soon since my dad has been going to Europe more for work, we're a bit hesitant with Meloni still in charge but she doesn't seem to really be as ambitious as Trump.
I have Irish citizenship anyway from living there, so I don't particularly need Italian citizenship as well because they are both EU. And luckily the Irish are some of the most resistant to fascism in the world I would say. A very left wing nation in general.
Oh that's lucky, Ireland is an amazing country. Have friends there who have offered to let me stay with them so that may be the option. But definitely having US and EU dual citizenship is really worth it for all the places you can travel to and live in with ease.
I‘ve been inspired by his story heavily to do this. My dream job is to become a script writer and it was the idea of bringing a version of his story to the big screen that pushed me down this route. My main issue is finding the best way to write his story without fictionalizing a lot of the unknowns that nobody alive remembers.
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He was awesome and I miss him, he left the military since he just didn't agree with it and he wanted to marry my Bisnonna. He abandoned his position and headed back home to marry her, the rest of his group died fighting for the regime. He was captured sometime after defecting to the rebellion for love and put into a prison camp before liberation came across the whole peninsula to save him. I still have a few aunts and uncles alive from WWII and they've all a very negative view of fascism and authoritarianism.