In the presence of General Figluolo, warning from the national president of the Alpini, Favero: “Pandemic and Afghanistan teach us a lot”
CISON. The thunder of Sebastiano Favero. The national president of Ana is a meek man. And when it is in a shrine – as the Bosco delle Penne Mozze has been for 50 years, with 2405 Fallen – it maintains low tones, almost religious. Yesterday, in front of the thousand black feathers gathered among the trees and steles of memory, in front of the commissioner Francesco Figliuolo, the commander of the Alpine troops Claudio Berto, the military ordinary Santo Marcianò, Mario Conte and about fifty mayors and numerous parliamentarians , with the councilor Federico Caner representing the governor Luca Zaia, Favero has almost lost his patience.
The request, for about ten years now, for compulsory conscription? “So far we have found a rubber wall but I hope that the pandemic on the one hand and events like Afghanistan teach something to those who govern us,” Favero raised his voice, looking around. “These Fallen of ours are shouting it at us and asking us for it and today from here we should have the strength to go home with the determined will to go on,” he warned.
For Favero, with the Ana standard behind him (216 gold medals) and the entire national council deployed, the abolition of the draft was “a political myopia”. It is already late, but – the president has become severe – we want the return of compulsory service. We should not be afraid to move and strongly demand this return because it is in the interest of the homeland. Attention, no military intent in Favero’s words. The compulsory draft – he explained – will allow us to fight and win against a very rampant and dangerous phenomenon: individualism and the idea of being self-sufficient in everything. No, it is being together, it is solidarity that allows a people to live, to look forward to their own future ».
A compulsory draft, in short, “to bring out in all of us that sense of solidarity that our Alpine troops showed yesterday, setting up a camp for refugees in Afghanistan”.
The intervention of the commander of the Alpine troops, General Claudio Berto, was similar in tone when, defined the Bosco “the cathedral of sacrifice”, he explained that today “the sacrifice has been emptied of its meaning, deleted from the vocabularies, placed in a reliquary and you look as you can look at an heirloom, a relic, something that has an obscure meaning. “And he recalled the Alpine officers who died in Afghanistan, putting their lives before that of their subordinates, and the soldiers of the trucks of the dead in Bergamo , who in that case substituted the relatives with their pietas, thus the lever as an education to life.
No less strong was the warning of Archbishop Marcianò, who, celebrating the Mass, recalled that in the DNA of the Alpine troops there is the dignity of life, the profound respect for the other. So, he hinted, the vaccine is a must. «When we forget to observe laws of this kind, justice is not practiced, the growth of the people is not ensured. And it is not uncommon for claims of certain rights to come to express irresponsible behavior by citizens against the law. Just think of certain positions that emerged during the pandemic or on the other side that could lead to the promulgation of disrespectful laws on life, such as, for example, in the current proposals relating to euthanasia, assisted suicide “.Francesco Dal Mas