A few days have passed since Team Ride To Finish completed their quest to bring awareness for the 480 unknown soldiers buried in the American Cemetery in Nettuno Italy. I had a great deal of respect for these men before we left Tony’s grandfather’s hometown of Solarino, Sicily and rode 1000 Km (miles) to Nettuno, […]
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Life has many difficult surprises in store for most of us. How many times have we asked ourselves why? God why me? Sooner or later in our life we will have to confront a disease, loosing a family member, your father, mother, brother, sister. Imagine loosing a child in a far off land and not […]
Great ideas, ordinary men and above all men without fear of what the future holds . Athletes are motivated for themselves, motivated to win or to battle an illness. An athlete has a choice to compete or not to compete ,to measure himself against his own limits where normal men will not try. On the […]
During the second world war, in order to liberate Italy, the Americans and their Allies conducted three amphibious landings. Operation Husky in Sicily, Operation Avalanche Salerno and Operation Shingle in Nettuno. During these three operations, many of the deceased were buried here in Nettuno, at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. Among the 7,861 of American military […]