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# 80 JUNE 20 , 2016
# 80 june 20 , 2016
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EDITORIAL #80:
What’s up with WTI
By Umberto Mucci
Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 80th
issue of our online magazine. During this
month a lot of things have happened,
and I want to briefly tell you about them.
First of all, like every year on Memorial
Day We the Italians paid our respect to
the American soldiers buried or commemorated in the Sicily Rome American
Cemetery in Nettuno. We will never forget their sacrifice, they gave their lives to
free our country and we will always be
thankful to them.
At the beginning of June I had the honor of been granted of a US Visa as a
journalist, that will be helpful to increase
the activities of We the Italians in the US:
about this there's a lot going on … underground. More to come, asap. Happy!
Columbus announced the discovery of
the "new world". It is a very exciting and
very important piece of history that will
be returned to Florence's Riccardiana library where it belongs.
Later on in June, We the Italians was invited from the Italian Ministry for Foreign
Affairs to attend at a meeting of the Fulbright Scholars, an event promoted by
the Fulbright Commission aimed as an
orientation for Italian grant holders leaving for the U.S.A. and American grant
holders coming to Italy. It was awesome
to be able to talk to several young Italians excited for their future experience
in the US and to their young American
fellows who are spending a wonderful
time studying and researching here in
Italy. It was really a "two flags one heart"
situation!
Last but not least, on June 9 we organized the first presentation of the Italian
version of the "We the Italians" book,
which will be available in the Italian bookstores and online in just a few days.
This preview took place in Turin, where
In Rome, We the Italians attended the
press conference during which the Italian Ministry for Culture and the American Ambassador to Italy presented the
recovery, thanks to the Library of Congress, of the letter in which Christopher
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