The day before yesterday we were walking to the grocery and noticed this marker at the point where our street connects to Via Roma, one of Manziana's main streets. This spot is maybe 100 feet from Giulio's house.
It turns out to be a marker commemorating four US soldiers killed during World War II on June 7, 1944. Next week is the 70th anniversary of their deaths. Of the four men, one is from Georgia and another from Kentucky. Kind of wild coincidence. I think I will get some flowers and leave them in honor of the men.
I asked Gianluca if Italians -who under Mussolini were Axis allies with Hitler- viewed the Americans as invaders or liberators. He said it depends on a person's politics. Contemporary Italians who supported Fascism or see/saw it as a good period for Italy view the Americans as invaders. Others -as with this memorial- as liberators.
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