- "
Excused a lot, we have bombed to you for mistake ".
- Raw
but realistic synthesis of the tragic event of 54 years ago, when "
the allies " Americans bombed the city making damages like " the
German " adversaries, allied of the day before.
- We
live again the atmosphere of that date through the story of an eyewitness,
prof. the Paschal Red deer, author of the volume, sketched in the 1984 and
still unknown one, " Aligned and covered ".
-
- "..Il
27 January 1944 to the hour ninth, correspondent press' little to the
three of the afternoon, was the usual andirivieni of men and means and the
usual din of airplane that they went and they returned. While I went
meditating on these " nugae, totus in illis ", the present
noises I did not feel more to them. Then, to unexpected me ritrascinò
" to veros timores " like a urlo disumano, than coming down from
the sky squall of martellate was made more and more acute, rabid, cutting,
accompagnandosi to one sand banks, clear, distinguished from regular
intervals. And endured the earth it shook under my feet. We took me as a
jumped feeling of capogiro and to the impiedi I watched towards the
country: an enormous black cloud levò behind the villa De more and more
immense Magistris facendosi as the wind dispersed schiacciandola to it
towards the earth.
- I
noticed where my mother, therefore as was, she tried to wrap the small in
one covered in order to escape goodness knows where. And therefore my
brother Aldo, of seventeen days and some hour, saw for before turns "
the free aure in the air ", in arm to me, than I was preparing the
shield for trasferirmi from the forehead of the Volturno on the coasts of
north-western Turkey where there was in course an other conflict, for
guilt of a sure Omero, that it had ignited my fantasy. I imagined if the
furious dive of " the Thunderbolt " had surprised it near the
christening font: that beautiful opinion would have begun to farces of the
life, than it made that wonderful acceptance it!
- What
was happened? Absolutely nothing. Only one " small distraction "
of the pilots who, being Americans, those bombs would have had sganciarle
little more innanzi and instead goodness knows which God had blinded them
that day: Bacchus or perhaps the cousins of beyond the ocean of such
Mediterranean divinity?
- If
you have courtesy not to be impaziente, I want raccontarti the things
therefore as I saw same endured after. So endured that as soon as I
noticed that someone had removed me the child I put of race towards the
country. And I did not see nothing, along the road, unless " a jeep
" firm with some soldiers who distributed something; they were felt
screams of woman and of small, from the heap, like if that people had
embezzled itself from little to a mortal risk, miraculously, because they
had the faces pales like phantoms, they were all grey, heavy powder places
setting, the color of hats had become uniform for all, like if all were
old and falling. The only thing that luccicava was the eyes of some "
M.P. " black persons.
- I
did not stop myself neanche to curiosare, and with me other people that
arrived, accorrendo from all the parts. Feed that I had the porch "
of the zingari ", he was like if to the unexpected one the evening
were descent: a driven in suspended haze, of the same color of that I had
seen in face to the crowd of phantoms; for earth, thick a finger, as
cipria grayish on which they remained impresse the tracks. To right,
hardly after the porch, on the alley " of the Lamia ", the ruins
had the height of the first arc suspended between a house and the other
sicché where before it was all a covered communication trench, on the old
ones walls, hour looked at the sky of the sunset, more luminosity from
that part, like if a gigantic hand were last cancellandovi in a moment
centuries and centuries of history. Only that then that you want to
understand? I watched and I did not astound myself of null; coming down
along the rampe of the cathedral, the powder under the feet went facendosi
more and more dark and more driven in. When I showed oneself on the public
square, I saw that the chiome of the plants, to right and on the left of
the scalea, they were grey anch', as those of the ghosts that urlavano,
little innanzi, around to the machine; the lastricato one had changed
color like lago of fuligginosa cipria.
- In
this powder lago, like many scogli various, asymmetric; as well as that it
was not discerned if were be a matter of calcinacci piovuti from a
episcopio, on the left, that appeared like sventrato until the height of
man, or of corpses surprises from the storm in means to the public square
and abandoned to the drift and a crowd that appeared like driven crazy.
- The
ruins that choked the entrance of the climb of Saint Nicholas, after the
bell tower of the Announced one, arrived to the windows of Association of
Bologna of the palace of the Religious charities that instead were
remained in feet, therefore like sèguita stubbornly to remain today. And
it was like if the enormous complex of caseggiati to right, going up, to
begin from that one of the medical Flour end where hour, in the by now
empty space they have gained us the piazzetta of the Freedom, like if all
it had been sbriciolato, ammassandosi in means to the way, sicché in the
church of the Monache instead of entrarci from the portale, obstructed,
you could scenderci from the window of the apse.
- While,
on that shapeless scrap iron cumulus scrambled up deprived of hope lots of
people, calling someone to high voice, and strappandosi the hats, but it
did not answer nobody. Other bombs had fallen down to Pits, where the fire
ce had not made it to destroy all: I went to giving a look and on an other
mountain of ruins I forsennatamente found people armed of picconi and
shovels that dug, swearing because they said that here under there was
remained buried I do not know who and that if n' were felt urla and plants
deprived of hope, than sure she had to be alive, if were not died of fear.
I returned to house that was night and riattraversando the country said
that they had been the Americans to commetterlo that " small mistake
", because they had exchanged the castle for the Abbey of
Montecassino, solo that the castle I lack to dirlo not it they had hit,
mistaking of some kilometer hardly in air line and devastando what of the
country remained in feet.
- They
had found of machine-gunner and finanche one bossoli inesplosa bomb next
to the ruins: it was written very clearly " USA ". The Germans
could not have been, had other to which thinking, in those days, for
venirsela taking with four he walls crumbled; he was understood from
thousand miles.
- To
confermarlo they had been the same Americans in all franchezza: things in
war easy to happen; it was not understood as they had made not to kill
neanche one of them.
- On
the Lamia there was remained Vera Lamberti, nipotina of Devout that by now
was to confines to Padula, with others gerarchi. It was beautiful as the
blond aunt but. Under the ruins of Portanzia instead, with to that I did
not know, Anna the Ciccarelli, was died prettiest than all the school
companions.
- Me
ne I returned to house and I did not say nothing: when they did not say to
me that the aunt Maddalena to made things was returned from the afternoon
visit to Miss.s Puorto, over Portanzia, like was usual to make. On first
she seemed to me that she said one sciocchezza."
