Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient Luigi Albanese recognized by Italian author

link all’articolo in inglese della US Army fatto in occasione della presentazione del libro alla libreria Galla VICENZA (18 Aprile 2013) alla quale erano presente oltre ai rappresentanti della base Usaf americana anche reduci del Vietnam.

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Local Italian author Franco Lovato does justice to the heroic actions and the memory of Albanese in his just published history, “Echi di Pianto dall’Indocina Francese,” available from Edizione SGI Torino. To mark its publication, Lovato made an author’s appearance in a bookstore in downtown Vicenza April 18, 2013. The event was attended by more than 100 people, including a delegation of seven Vietnam veterans from the Veteran of Foreign Wars section of the Vicenza Military Community.

“The look I saw in the veterans’ eyes filled my heart with joy, and showed the gratitude for the effort I put into this work,” said Lovato, recognizing that their attendance in particular brought a powerful reality and a message to the event. “After having been in Vietnam, having seen those places and having breathed that air, I was only missing the looks on their faces to reconfirm my conviction that I have worked for something good. The memory of a brother of ours: Luigi Albanese,” he said.

“From the moment I stepped into the Libreria Galla, it was a tremendous experience. This was a remarkable team effort, among the bookstore staff, the various officials involved in the planning of the presentation, the friendly, detail-oriented and articulate author, the media representatives and our small American contingent,” said Lt. Col. Christopher S. Dillard, who was invited to represent the Vicenza-based U.S. Army Africa command.

“I was impressed by the respect displayed in the presentation toward the author, his research work, the book, all of the contributors and, most of all, for the subjects of the book presentation, the Vietnam War and U.S. Medal of Honor recipient, Luigi Albanese,” he said.

Dillard said the presence of the veterans brought enormous value to the event, in terms of showing their support and respect for both Albanese and Lovato’s book, and provided a living reminder of the sacrifices made and hardships endured by all Soldiers fallen in Vietnam, and by Albanese.

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