Twelve hundred students of the military schools of the Army have paid military honors to the fallen at the Redipuglia Memorial. The ceremony took place in a frame made particularly suggestive by the night illuminations of a symbol of the Great War.
Alongside the students coming from the Application School of Turin, from the Military Academy of Modena and from the Non-commissioned School of Viterbo, the representatives of the Combatant Association and of the Army as well as numerous visitors. The army corps general Giorgio Battisti, commander of the army, deposed the laurel wreath Training, Specialization and Doctrine Army accompanied by the mayor of Fogliano Redipuglia, dr. Antonio Calligaris.
At the end of the reading of the Soldier's prayer, the gen. Battisti addressed those present, stressing that it was "difficult to speak in this sacred place in front of one hundred thousand of our boys who sacrificed their lives for Italy a hundred years ago; surely it is a moment of great emotion to remember these young people who, in keeping with the oath taken, have fallen for Italy, for its freedom and for the country we have today and where we live. I believe that these one hundred thousand soldiers, together with the thousands of Austrian soldiers, must always set an example for all of us ".
The dott. Calligaris, after expressing his applause for the initiative, urged the students to keep the memory of this day for their future at the service of the country. The ceremony is part of the initiatives connected with the exercise "Una Acies" which sees sixteen hundred women and men of the Army present for the entire month of July in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The exercise aims to increase and standardize the preparation of future cadres of the Armed Forces and in this sense the deepening of military historical themes is particularly relevant.
