John Pecora
Yesterday would have turned seventy Paolo Borsellino, and today seventy-five Nino Scopelliti. If they had done
how those good citizens who do not make good sense to open the anti-Mafia banners at events, today would be quiet grandparents to celebrate with their children and, in the case of Borsellino, with his grandchildren.
But in life you meet many crossroads and we must continually make choices, and among all the choices at some point in our lives always arrives, on time, the most important choice, one that sharply differentiates you from the vast majority of humans. It does not come only for senior judges, generals, for the prefects, for the Cardinals ... arrives for the worker, the carpenter, for the teacher, for the unemployed.
comes to everyone sooner or later, the day you have to do the most important choice, one from which you will never go back: the choice to stay with the honest or dishonest. And sometimes
Destiny asks one of us a sacrifice to stay even higher among the honest, often a sacrifice that unfortunately can mean not being able to see their children grow, not to become grandparents. But that sacrifice becomes miraculously
example of life for millions of children, millions of grandchildren. What is
see their children grow and his grandchildren be born, if we do not have the courage to openly defy the Mafia? If even for our cowardice deliver it themselves to the Mafia, as victims or as affiliates?
Better to die young, but they write their names with their pure blood in the book of history for saying "NO" to the Mafia, who live a long life with downcast eyes and his back bent.
who gives his life for the good of others is looking to raise their children and grandchildren, but it is ideal father and the grandfather of all the good guys in the world. And in a hundred years
Nino Scopelliti, who died in the prime of life, it is still a vivid memory to be proud of. Great-grandchildren will be with her grandchildren at the head of processions to bring his challenge to the Mafia, will head up high and proud look in his desk of Attorney to the Supreme Court of Cassation, will be in the hearts of those who will tell his children and Rosarno "Here once commanded the 'Ndrangheta, and the poor people were afraid because the mafia wants you or his servant or his slave. Today the city is subject only to State law, the only one who can do the same for all citizens. Today Rosarno, and the whole of Calabria, is free. " And while proud
say so, you can see nearby Nino Scopelliti, Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone, Peppino Impastato and hundreds of other small and great heroes who greeted him with a smile, and bent a banner for the umpteenth time.
how those good citizens who do not make good sense to open the anti-Mafia banners at events, today would be quiet grandparents to celebrate with their children and, in the case of Borsellino, with his grandchildren.
But in life you meet many crossroads and we must continually make choices, and among all the choices at some point in our lives always arrives, on time, the most important choice, one that sharply differentiates you from the vast majority of humans. It does not come only for senior judges, generals, for the prefects, for the Cardinals ... arrives for the worker, the carpenter, for the teacher, for the unemployed.
comes to everyone sooner or later, the day you have to do the most important choice, one from which you will never go back: the choice to stay with the honest or dishonest. And sometimes
Destiny asks one of us a sacrifice to stay even higher among the honest, often a sacrifice that unfortunately can mean not being able to see their children grow, not to become grandparents. But that sacrifice becomes miraculously
example of life for millions of children, millions of grandchildren. What is
see their children grow and his grandchildren be born, if we do not have the courage to openly defy the Mafia? If even for our cowardice deliver it themselves to the Mafia, as victims or as affiliates?
Better to die young, but they write their names with their pure blood in the book of history for saying "NO" to the Mafia, who live a long life with downcast eyes and his back bent.
who gives his life for the good of others is looking to raise their children and grandchildren, but it is ideal father and the grandfather of all the good guys in the world. And in a hundred years
Nino Scopelliti, who died in the prime of life, it is still a vivid memory to be proud of. Great-grandchildren will be with her grandchildren at the head of processions to bring his challenge to the Mafia, will head up high and proud look in his desk of Attorney to the Supreme Court of Cassation, will be in the hearts of those who will tell his children and Rosarno "Here once commanded the 'Ndrangheta, and the poor people were afraid because the mafia wants you or his servant or his slave. Today the city is subject only to State law, the only one who can do the same for all citizens. Today Rosarno, and the whole of Calabria, is free. " And while proud
say so, you can see nearby Nino Scopelliti, Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone, Peppino Impastato and hundreds of other small and great heroes who greeted him with a smile, and bent a banner for the umpteenth time.
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