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We had radios so we had a fine time.

For 4-5 days everything went fine:

we went out on patrol and came back around noon.

One day our corporal asked us if we were fine.

I told him I was perfectly fine

but my friend Pancio, who was sitting next to me, said:

"No, if I find Communist partisans I will join them."

I asked him what he was saying. And Pancio repeated that he would join Communist partisans.

I hit him with the elbow and then we went home

and later the corporal went to talk to our boss, telling him our intentions.

He came to us and said: "Go to the boss ..."

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 ... ".