European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Just take my case: as soon as I finished primary third grade, after I had failed second grade,
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I stopped attending school.
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It’s not like someone stopped me from going, it’s just that it was enough to learn the basics of reading and writing.
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Later, in the army, I used to write letters for a fellow soldier from Guastalla and two more who were from the mountains.
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They were my age but didn’t know how to write: I was not better than them, but I had gone to school until third grade.
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Reflecting history
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I care about these stories.
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Not so much for myself.
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Rather for the benefit they convey to those who listen and want to think about them.
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It was real life.
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I’m not exaggerating things, even those episodes that are quite sensational.
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I rather focus on reflecting on them. It’s all about the 20th century, about the way we lived through it.
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Activities after the war
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I went back home. I knew I would find the same situation I had left behind.
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In the mountains I had become another person.
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I was respected and highly esteemed. Not only because of my stripes,
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but because of the way I took care of difficult operations.
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I didn’t want to go back home constantly having to listen to what my father or my brother said.
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As soon as I got home I told my father I didn’t want to work at home anymore.
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I wanted to shape my own life, find a job and become self-sufficient.
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