The Carabinieri And The Cowards

D'Acquisto was 22. Vice Brigadiere Salvo D'Acquisto of the Italian Carabinieri! After Mussolini was given the rope The Italian Armistice announced And Italy switched sides with hope D'Acquisto with the Allies at Palidoro, Where, two German soldiers killed And two others wounded In an explosion while inspecting Boxes of abandoned munitions. The German Commander Accused sabotage and Rounded up twenty two Civilians, all innocent. The Germans took D'Acquisto By force and questioned him, He tried to convince it was an accident And the civilians were innocent. But Germans stood by their theory And insisted on reprisal, ordered The saboteurs be executed Had them dig their own graves. As the German soldiers were about To shoot them, D'Acquisto ‘confessed' Well aware of the consequences, Was shot dead, and civilians spared. Pope John Paul II declared D'Acquisto a Servant of God Fourty years later, and started His beatification process. "We have to conform ourselves to God's will whatever the cost in suffering or sacrifice."