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World War 1 Centenary 2018 letter to grandparents

Stories and News No. 1102 Dear grandparents, These words are for you, that in two different continents rested, separated by a sea whose waters become every day more and more turbid. In life you have never met, and thanks to the privilege of a page and especially the time to fill it - which we should always be grateful of, I imagine you together, maybe sitting in a common living room, heated by the emotion of the moment and from the inexorable quantity of memories to be exchanged. Among the many, the one that went on stage exactly in July 1914, only to come out, for good luck of all the protagonists, just over four years later. I refer, of course, to the first world war, the great one, which will celebrate its centenary next November. I watch you carefully, now, that I have explained the pretext of this oneiric meeting. In detail, the grandmothers are seated on the sofa, while the respective husbands are standing upright, and more or less at the same time your witness memorie...