The War Cemetery lies alongside the ancient Aurelian Walls near Porta San Paolo, a place where fighting took place between the Allies and the German occupiers during the Second World War. It gives burials to 426 soldiers coming from various countries of the Commonwealth. Looking at the names and dates inscribed on the lapids, what hit me was how far they came from and how young they died: most of them just in their twenties…

April 25th is the day when Italy celebrates liberation from nazi-fascism, now in its 81st anniversary. On that day I visited the cemetery to pay homage to those young men who gave their lives for a country other than their own.

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