In Palazzo Chigi an Italian flag was delivered with the names of the victims of Italian origin of the attacks of 11 September 2001. The tricolor was received on Thursday, November 12 by the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, as part of a project dedicated to the memory of Italians and Italian Americans killed in terrorist attacks in the United States. The flag was presented last September at the Consulate General of Italy in New York, during the commemorations for the 25th anniversary of the attacks, along with a digital archive and a publication that collects the stories of the victims.
Giulio Picolli, who has been trying to reconstruct the identity of people with Italian origins who died in the attacks for almost twenty-five years. His research began on September 11, when he long sought news of his son Luigi Calvi, a 34-year-old Neapolitan who worked for the financial company Cantor Fitzgerald on the 10th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. From that personal story a reconstruction work was born that involved hundreds of families over time, through official records, documents, photographs and testimonies collected directly from the relatives of the victims.
The result is available on the site we will not forget. com, where for each person are reported, when available, a photograph, age, place of residence and information about its history. The archive currently contains 414 names, while in the September presentation there were 411. It is an independent reconstruction that also includes people of Italian descent, not only Italian citizens, and which remains open to new reports and corrections. Among the stories collected there are those of Arturo Angelo Sereno, a technician who ran to the Twin Towers to help rescuers, and Joseph Agnello, a firefighter who had finished the turn but decided to join the colleagues engaged in rescue operations.
The flag delivered to Ciriani resumes the idea of the Flag of Honor, the US banner created after the attacks by John Michelotti, on which the names of the people killed on September 11 are reported. The Italian project was developed with the contribution of several associations of the Italian-American community, including Italy America Reputation Lab and the Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic of New Jersey, and with the participation of the New York as a media partner. After the presentation in New York, the delivery to Palazzo Chigi represents a further step in the dissemination of an archive that Picolli intends to continue to update, even through the contributions of the families.
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