THE TRILLINI BROTHERS
DATE
GUALTIERO Osimo 1889 - Libia 1912 ENRICO Osimo 1891 - San Pietro Natisone 1917 GIUSEPPE Osimo 1896 - Monte Grappa 1918 IGINO Osimo 1900 - 1919 Military hospital of Bologna (for the war wounds)
FACTS
We have only few memories to remind them: a musical instrument, some photoes and war medals. Their lives have been too short, but the ideals for which they died (peace, justice, love and freedom) are still alive. The Trillini brothers were born in Osimo and they lived in a house not far from our school. They all died in war: Gualtiero in Libia in 1912 and the other ones during the 1st World War.
SOLDIERS' LIFE
During the 1st World War the soldiers' life was very hard: They had to walk on the mountains between the Italian and Austrian borders they had to carry weapons and baggages on their shoulders using mules only for the heaviest ones they had to dig tranches, refuges and galleries to shelter they had to live there, into the tranches, in every season, with the rain or the snow, often in the mud and when it was too cold they had to move continuously avoiding to freeze they fought running or crowling one against one gaining or losing only few hundreds of metres every time. their only hope was to come back home.
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
These young men are to be considered heroes because they' ve fought and given their lives for the peace and the freedom of our country. It' s a honour for us that our school has been entitled to them. But we also think it's not a right thing that young people full of happiness, hope and dreams must go to war. War is always useless. (Translation from a pupils' work.)