My grandfather from my father’s side (pictured above, dressed in white) was a fighter ace who was awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour and the Order of Merit for Labour after the end of World War II, but he was never too proud of his trophies. The end of the war came most dramatically in Italy to make anyone happy. “Fascism ruined my life; it dragged the country into a lost war which costed immense human and material losses”, he told me one time. “Most officials of the military air force agreed with me”.
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