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What a wonderful tradition
“Market Garden” was another of Monty’s spectacular failures. He only won El Alemein because he outnumbered the Germans and Italians by about 5-to-1 in tanks, and Rommel still got most of his surviving forces away. Churchill forced FDR and Ike to give Monty commands even though they knew he was a talentless martinet. Flame away.
Beautiful!
They must have buried a lot of them alive. Total US casualties - killed and wounded - were under 4000 in Market Garden. (82nd about 1400 casualties, 101st about 2100).
So take the rest of the story with a grain of salt.
I believe they do this same thing someplace in Italy too.
I remember seeing video of it and hearing from the families who take care of the burial site.
Also, they said that they encouraged people to visit and see how they cared for the gravesites.
It's actually Nini Rosso. His recording of "Il Silenzio" was a smash hit in Western Europe in the late summer of 1965 and got airplay on pop music stations through the rest of the year. However, it was virtually unknown in the United States. After hearing it for the last time on a Spanish radio station in December, 1965, I would not hear it again until the 21st century, after the Internet came along.
The tune contains the spoken lines,
Buona notte, amore.
Ti vedrò nei miei sogni.
Buona notte a te che sei lontana(Good night, my dear.
I'll see you in my dreams.
Good night to you who are so far away.)
You can hear it on the link below.
Il Silenzio--Nini Rosso (1965)
I visited Bastonge about 10 years ago. There is an American tank sitting in the main square. There is also a monument to General Anthony Clement “Nuts” McAuliffe. I was there a couple of days, and fresh flowers were placed on the tank and in front of the monument each morning.
When war happens in your town, you remember, and so do your sons and daughters if you teach them well.
Canteen ping
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