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Article: Italy has not forgotten: the Italian government has recently erected a war memorial commemorating WWII.
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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Canadian educators may keep today's school children ignorant of the part their grandfathers and great-grandfathers played in two World Wars, but in Holland and in Italy their deeds are not forgotten. The latest evidence of this was to be seen near Rimini, on the Adriatic Coast of Italy, where, at the expence of citizens of a small village named Tavullia, a large memorial was erected to the memory of the Canadians who drove the Germans out of Italy and restored the Italian people to the freedom of which Facism had deprived them, and the terror which they suffered under German occupation. It was dedicated in September 1997.
The memorial commemorates the battle of ...