"Est enim amicitia nihil aliud nisi omnium divinarum humanarumque rerum cum benevolentia et caritate consensio" (Friendship is nothing other than the harmony of human and divine things, accompanied by benevolence and charity) Cicero, Laelius de amicitia.
When you sign up for a Weapon association like the National Parachutists Association of Italy, ANPd'I, who holds high the values of the Lightning, if they accept the ideals, discipline, respect for the country and the flag, the founding principles that are also those of every civil society that wants to define it, the sense of 'honor, the spirit of aggregation. By sharing all this, one learns to have a straight back, not to hide behind an apology, to take responsibility and to carry out his duties as "civis". For all this, it was absolutely natural that on Sunday May 21, at the Circus Maximus of Rome, the ANPd'I participated in forces at the Race for the Cure, a five-kilometer ride or a walk of two, which closes the three days of traditional events devoted to raising awareness and fundraising for breast cancer. There were all, from the president of the section of Rome, Adriano Tocchi, paratroopers of all ages, including the instructors, the aspirants of the 163esimo Corso. Everyone is proud to participate, because they are aware of how important it is to be there. Because what we call, with a very abused word and "fairly" correct, solidarity, when it is more than thought, it must be above all action, participation. It is friendship, it is sharing, it is a sign, in the literal sense of seal. The good should not be explained, let alone justified. It is done. Without retropensieri. Because it's right this way.
Race for the Cure, in which thousands of people participate, is the conclusive and symbolic manifestation of the Susan G. Komen Italy, a voluntary nonprofit organization that 2000 is dealing with breast cancer worldwide across the country. The Circus Maximus again this year, during the two previous days, hosted the Village of health, sport and wellness, where it was possible to find out about proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles, and where diagnostic and specialist consultations were offered free of charge. Madrina of the event Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Rosanna Banfi, this last testimonial of the Women in Pink, women who have had breast cancer and, wanting to give a positive signal in the way they deal with the disease, choose to make themselves visible by wearing a pink hat and t-shirt.
Rome, with well over the 60 thousand members, is the edition with the most participants in the world among the 150 Komen in America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
It is due to a special woman, Nancy G. Brinker, if today all this is a world reality, as it is also thanks to her if today talking about breast cancer is no longer a taboo, if science has realized that women need of diagnosis and dedicated care, if the sense of shame has been erased for having become ill, as if one were to apologize, in addition to the pain of an uphill path. Thirty years ago it was hard to name it, cancer, even on television, in America as in Italy, was unseemly, people were changing channels. You got sick and you were already given up as a drug, even if you were healed they looked at you like an alien, "Radames excused!", Seemed to tell you also and especially the closest and dear, embarrassed because you had a breast cut and you were not "as before ". And this killed more than the tumor.
Brinker, in the 1982, promised her sister Susan G. Komen, who died of this evil at 36 years, things would change. So it was. Today the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is the largest fundraising event dedicated to the topic. Only in Italy, from 2000 to today, over three million euros have been donated for seven hundred projects, ranging from prevention campaigns and early diagnosis to refresher courses for health workers, from the purchase of clinical equipment to the psychophysical recovery of women . Four regional committees, three thousand volunteers. And the good thing is that you always know who the money goes, all documented and in the sunlight.
Race for The Cure takes place under the patronage of the President of the Republic and with the patronage and participation of the Italian Army, Arma dei Carabinieri, Red Cross, Siae, National Academy of Santa Cecilia, University Polyclinic Foundation Agostino Gemelli - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Federation Italian Athletics, Coni, Ministry of Health, Lazio region, municipality of Rome.
