Five years ago, the major corporal, Sebastiano Damiano Ville, an Alpine of the 7 regiment of Belluno, fell into a terrorist attack in Buji, Afghanistan, along with three other soldiers, while a fifth soldier was wounded. Today the village has gathered around his family and dedicated an important town square to him.
In the mother church the vicar of the military ordinary for Italy officiated Mass in the presence of the commander of the autonomous military command Sicily, General Corrado Dalzini and numerous civil and military authorities, including the mayor of the city and the commander of the 7 ° Alpine regiment at the material time, Colonel Paolo Sfarra. To remember the fallen Alpine, also numerous representatives of the national alpine association and many comrades and former comrades.
At the end of the mass, a silent and orderly crowd moved to the heart of Francofonte for the ceremony of naming the square after Sebastiano Damiano Ville. "Sicilian man belonging to a South that has sacrificed his children since time immemorial and who believes that remembering is necessary, because" - added the mayor - "a people without memories is a people without history".
After hearing the intervention of Colonel Sfarra, who retraced the crucial moments of the attack in which "Sebastiano and his companions met their destiny: a bomb hidden in the ground". At the end of the speech, a very long applause inspired the words of General Dalzini, "deeply impressed by the touching participation of the citizens, a tangible sign of the deep feeling for the corporal chosen Ville who fell on a mission abroad".
