happy Thanksgiving darth. Peaceful dreams to you, see you next season. 💙

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I sort of bark-laughed loudly when he said it. So unbelievably bizarre, all of it.

What did I just watch 😶😶🤣🤣

Very weird hill to die on there, Megs.

Absolutely. 💙

Your post made me start hunting down more info on the 92nd's role in fighting alongside the partigiani in Italy. I found reference to a documentary called "Inside Buffalo" that I'm going to try and track down (I think it's only in Italian but if I find in English I'll post a link here.)

It was heartbreaking to hear his story, more so b/c when he realized we were American, he was so delighted to meet us. We wanted to apologize for the path we were on but couldn't speak for being so choked up. That was Aug 2017; it hurts even more now to think of how much worse it's gotten.

The soldiers were from the 92nd Division and were responsible for fighting alongside the Italian partigiani on the Gothic Line front. The man we spoke to had tears in his eyes 73 years later as he told us about the soldiers and how they cared for them as they were nearly starved to death.

The Italian man in the story was saved by a company of Black soldiers; he was only 6 at the time. His group was terrified when the soldiers discovered them in their cave (it was the first time any of them had ever seen a black person) but overcame his fear when they started handing out chocolate. :)

I found a post that I made back when it happened in 2017, when we accidentally stumbled on Sant'Anna in Stazzema [hopefully this link will take you to the post?]:
www.instagram.com/p/BYUDq19Aem...

I will share a beautiful story with you about a company of Black soldiers that liberated parts of Tuscany during WWII as soon as I'm at the computer and can type it all out. 💙