With this intent, the Italian military contingent in Afghanistan played a volleyball tournament that ended last Saturday in Herat, just over a year after the death of the 3 officer Bersaglieri regiment, who died on June 8 in Afghanistan following a terrorist attack.
Also present at the awards ceremony was the commander of the Regional Command West, General Manlio Scopigno, who applauded the athletes, the referees and the event organizers for the spirit and success of the initiative.
Major Giuseppe La Rosa was involved in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan when, "during a tactical logistic movement", stated the motivation for the awarding of the gold medal for military valor, "it was the object of a vile terrorist attack.
With a heroic gesture, showing uncommon courage, unparalleled generosity and conscious contempt for danger, he immolated himself by putting himself in the shield of others' lives, protecting them with his own body from the explosion of a bomb launched inside the vehicle in which he was traveling.
Very high testimony of noble human qualities and heroic military virtues, pushed to the supreme sacrifice ".
The high honor, conferred on 6 last February with the decree of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, was handed over to the relatives of Major La Rosa by Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti on the occasion of the 153 anniversary of the establishment of the army, a ceremony at which they had attended the chief of staff of the defense, admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli, and the chief of staff of the army, general Claudio Graziano.
Source: Italian contingent in Afghanistan
