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# 74 •nECEMBER 14 , 2015
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EDITORIAL #74:
What’s up with WTI
By Umberto Mucci
Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 74th issue of our
online magazine. On Thursday December 3 in Rome
We the Italians have been
part of the commemoration, hosted at the House of Representatives, of
the tragedy happened in
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1907 in Monongah, West
Virginia, where 171 Italian
miners lost their lives. Together with the Representative elected in the US
Hon. Fucsia Nissoli Fitzgerald and Sen. Benedetto
Della Vedova, Undersecretary at the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs, the President of the “Associazione Culturale Monongah”
Gianni Meffe introduced
the topic of the poor conditions of the cemetery
where several fellow compatriots are buried.