In a.D. 1998 I met an old airman from the last great war, Milton. Someone told him that I was soon going to Italy again. He looked up with a smile and laughed: "Oh, I've been there!" So, I asked: "Oh, what did you see?" He laughed again: "I only saw it from the air; we bombed it!"
The fury of the Allied bombing left these tokens in Viterbo, just north of Rome. Did you know that the Allies bombed Rome twice? Let liberty ring!
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Do you know facist Italy was allied with Nazi Germany in WW II? Rome was therefore a hostile city. Do you know it was liberated by American soldiers? Do you know how many American lives the campaign on the Italian peninsula cost? Yes, let freedom ring. But keep in mind it doesn't come cheap.
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