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I told him: "Armando (Pancio), we had a hard time finding them

and now we've found them and are doing fine, we have to eat and have fun,

how can you say something like this?"

And in fact we walked in and our boss said:

"Hey you, you'd better stay in your area because we don't even have weapons,

so you'd rather go to the area of Succiso, there are partisans there".

And so we kept going.

I had this discussion with Pancio,

I told him "Come on, were so lucky and now we're here in misery ... ".

"You'll see that now ..."

Well, we went on slowly, slowly, and they didn't even give us anything for lunch.

We went on walking towards our areas and we arrived around 10-11 am.

It was a bad day, it was raining and we kept discussing

about the fact that we were still there at the starting piont.

We reached a point where people were throwing garbage in a hole,

and we guessed that there must be a village nearby.

I looked into the hole and saw a sort of Alpino-hat in the garbage.

It was one of those hats that the Balilla were using,

the avanguardists (fascist youth), they had a hat like the ones the Alpini used.

So I went down and got the hat, cleaned it a bit and put it on my head.