900 deaths today in Italy !!
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I just sent out a care package to Brecia in Northern Italy. I have my cousins who in Brecia and another one who lives in Bergamo.. both cities have been hit hard by the virus.. my other cousins in Reggio di Calabria haven't got it yet.. they are in southern italy..
My mothers 1st cousin Fortunato and Edda are 95 and 96 years old they haven't left their house in Brecia in 3 weeks.. there daughter Marie has a special pass so she can drive and go to stores and buy them food...the death rate in Italy is sky high... I sent a care package out for Easter for them a few weeks ago.. it cost me $83 dollars for some food and some articles ...it took 6 days to get there... they were very moved by my gesture from their American cousins .. Fortunato is a retired captain in the Carbanari { Italian State Police} and has been stationed 35 years in Brecia...
Thru their daughter he sent a note me yesterday.
He thanked me for us caring about his family.. then he told a story I had heard before but forgot.. It was 1944 and my father found him and his family and delivered food to them in Reggio.. they lived in Reggio and my father was with the AMG..allied military goverment in Gen Clarks 5th army.. they had just crossed the straits of Messina as the Germans were retreating...my father knew their address and found them and delivered food and supplies..Fortunato was a young boy but remembers my father and American soldiers arriving in an Army truck delivering food to his family.. and these were my mothers relatives not his ..Fortunato was the youngest with 4 older sisters.. he is the only one still alive...
Marie translated his message...yesterday thanking me and saying he doesn't remember my father but knew what he did but he remembers the chocolate candy that these soldiers gave him in 1944.. but when he opened the care package I had put a few Hersey Chocolate bars .. I guess he broke down and cried to think 80 or plus years later an American was sending him Hersey bars.. he said all the chocolate in Italy was dark and bitter in 1944 and as a kid it was the best tasting chocolate ever.. he might be 85 or 86 but he remembers that like it was yesterday.. My father was with AMG until the capture of Rome in June of "44.. then he became part of an investigated team that looked into the Createne Cave Massacre of 300 Italians a few moths before the capture of Rome.. my father who graduated Manhattan College in 1936 taught Italian and Spanish at Teddy Roosevelt HS in the Bronx until 1942 when the war broke out..
praying that what happens in Italy doesn't spread here in the US
My mothers 1st cousin Fortunato and Edda are 95 and 96 years old they haven't left their house in Brecia in 3 weeks.. there daughter Marie has a special pass so she can drive and go to stores and buy them food...the death rate in Italy is sky high... I sent a care package out for Easter for them a few weeks ago.. it cost me $83 dollars for some food and some articles ...it took 6 days to get there... they were very moved by my gesture from their American cousins .. Fortunato is a retired captain in the Carbanari { Italian State Police} and has been stationed 35 years in Brecia...
Thru their daughter he sent a note me yesterday.
He thanked me for us caring about his family.. then he told a story I had heard before but forgot.. It was 1944 and my father found him and his family and delivered food to them in Reggio.. they lived in Reggio and my father was with the AMG..allied military goverment in Gen Clarks 5th army.. they had just crossed the straits of Messina as the Germans were retreating...my father knew their address and found them and delivered food and supplies..Fortunato was a young boy but remembers my father and American soldiers arriving in an Army truck delivering food to his family.. and these were my mothers relatives not his ..Fortunato was the youngest with 4 older sisters.. he is the only one still alive...
Marie translated his message...yesterday thanking me and saying he doesn't remember my father but knew what he did but he remembers the chocolate candy that these soldiers gave him in 1944.. but when he opened the care package I had put a few Hersey Chocolate bars .. I guess he broke down and cried to think 80 or plus years later an American was sending him Hersey bars.. he said all the chocolate in Italy was dark and bitter in 1944 and as a kid it was the best tasting chocolate ever.. he might be 85 or 86 but he remembers that like it was yesterday.. My father was with AMG until the capture of Rome in June of "44.. then he became part of an investigated team that looked into the Createne Cave Massacre of 300 Italians a few moths before the capture of Rome.. my father who graduated Manhattan College in 1936 taught Italian and Spanish at Teddy Roosevelt HS in the Bronx until 1942 when the war broke out..
praying that what happens in Italy doesn't spread here in the US
That was a nice gesture on your part sending out a care package .
Thanks for sharing your story
Hoping all is well for you and your loved ones🙏
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we tracked the shipment even though I didn't get insurance..the cost of sending it was 4 times the coast of what was in the package It went from austin to Peroia Ill to NY to Milan to brecia ..never used a tracker sending things My cousin Marie said her brothers and other family members were all around her parents when the opened up the package they all laughed at my dog biscuits in a plastic bag ..back in a few
I knew edda and fortunato had a dog so I included a doggie bag with a few treats.. I put it in a clear plastic bag and put an index card in it " no manga,questo e per tu cane" " don't eat this is for the dog".. I guess they all laughed and laughed.. I didn't want them thinking I'm sending them dog food..things are bad in Brecia but not yet that bad... Marie said only our cousin in the US would think of our dogs ..lol
I think our house is sold... I want to fly back and just clear the rest of the house. but my 3 daughters,son and wife are totally against it...over 60 people in Orange County have the virus more then in Austin...
so my best friend and his wife will designate all the furniture that has been promised to people and put in a few boxes some items that I still have to look over...there is not enough stuff to rent a storage locker Its just I need some closure after being there almost 40 years...think the village is going to rezone the house and allow it to become a bed a breakfast... its just the perfect home with 6 bedrooms and 32 windows and 3 porches ...it was my dream home but I guess the dream is over...
Old south send me your email again want to send you something again for keeping track of my picks .. I can't thank you enough.
Yesterday had breakfast at a Randalls super market parking lot near the gym we play at...all my racquetball buddies put our cars in a big circle 6 feet from each other 2 guys bought chairs to sit on,tables,etc it was really great we all ordered from a place called Dan's across the street.. every Friday we all go to Dans for breakfast ,,so even though we can't play we all did take out and sat and shot the bull for an hour... wow I miss that..
hopefully everyone is careful and hopefully we can beat this terrible virus
I think our house is sold... I want to fly back and just clear the rest of the house. but my 3 daughters,son and wife are totally against it...over 60 people in Orange County have the virus more then in Austin...
so my best friend and his wife will designate all the furniture that has been promised to people and put in a few boxes some items that I still have to look over...there is not enough stuff to rent a storage locker Its just I need some closure after being there almost 40 years...think the village is going to rezone the house and allow it to become a bed a breakfast... its just the perfect home with 6 bedrooms and 32 windows and 3 porches ...it was my dream home but I guess the dream is over...
Old south send me your email again want to send you something again for keeping track of my picks .. I can't thank you enough.
Yesterday had breakfast at a Randalls super market parking lot near the gym we play at...all my racquetball buddies put our cars in a big circle 6 feet from each other 2 guys bought chairs to sit on,tables,etc it was really great we all ordered from a place called Dan's across the street.. every Friday we all go to Dans for breakfast ,,so even though we can't play we all did take out and sat and shot the bull for an hour... wow I miss that..
hopefully everyone is careful and hopefully we can beat this terrible virus
