The spirit of the calendar is a tribute that the carabinieri wanted to pay to their families, from those in service to those no longer in service. From the carabinieri who have lived the history of the weapon for 200 years, "alongside the organization and the efficiency that an institution must have - as General Gallitelli underlined - and all this cannot be alive, it cannot be touched if it is not permeated with passion, feelings, values ".
Fifteen tables, designed by Maestro Paolo Di Paolo, in pastel color whose main theme is "The carabinieri and the family", where the letters sent by the military to their families are reported that tell and explain feelings and moods in particular moments of their activities. They are messages of values that summarize a whole life, without ever forgetting the surrounding reality.
During his presentation General Gallitelli highlighted that "If we can talk about the great family of the Arma it is because each of us can count on the love of our family. And love for one's family becomes the cement for this cohesion, which is the determining factor for that consensus, that affection, that trust that the Arma collects today and has always gathered in these 200 years ".
With this calendar, the Arma wanted to give a living, pulsating and concrete message of being a carabiniere.
The ceremony
The artistic tables of the 2015 edition of the Historical Calendar have been presented to the public by Massimo Giletti.
The morning began with the reading, by the actor Ettore Bassi, of a passage taken from the testament of Marshal MOVM "to the Memory" Francesco Pepicelli - the 24 1944 died in the Xxumx of the Fosse Ardeatine after suffering torture in Nazi prisons of via Tasso - directed to his wife Olga and daughter Biancamaria.
General Gallitelli, later, in greeting those present, underlined the important and silent role played by the family in the daily action of the Carabiniere, thus explaining the reasons for the choice to dedicate to them the first calendar of the third century of life of the weapon .
Massimo Giletti then spoke on the theme of the calendar together with gen. Ca Cesare Vitale, president of the National Assistance Work for Military Orphans of the Carabinieri (ONAOMAC) moral body - of a private nature - which aims to assist, until graduation, the orphans of the military of the Carabinieri of any rank and to the gen. about Libero Lo Sardo, president of the National Carabinieri Association (ANC).
Monica Palermo
