Unclogging Marine Toilet

Domenico Pelizzo, Faedis UD

Born June 25, 1907

1996/24 Tape - Side A October 9, 1996

I was small and the Germans - there were colonels - I was told "meine kleine" . I will always remember those words, they wanted to say "you're my little baby." I was 11 years.

Oh I remember that this colonel was always home to watch what you eat. Here was the command, and then what happened? I was furbacchiotto! We had the hen house, and went to take the eggs away. He has noticed this and put our guard. There was a hive, and to escape the guard poked the beehive. Ai! Ay, Ay! ouch! I still remember the call, I will never forget.

D. Ma era buono nel complesso o cattivo, questo colonnello?

R. No, buono.

I tedeschi sono stati qua, faccia conto ... erano qua arrivati nel mese di ottobre, si era scappati tutti, noi.

Quando siamo tornati era tutto per aria la casa.

Sono arrivati verso novembre, dicembre ... il comando; poi giugno, e poi ci fu la rivoluzione nel momento che stava per finire.

Il colonnello era austriaco.

Dopo portavano qua dei prigionieri che facevano pietà. Li mettevano là e avevano fatto un gabinetto, con un legno, così. Povera gente!

C'erano anche gli ungheresi, qua, oltre che gli austriaci, tanto è vero che quando si andava in piazza - c'era una guardia in piazza - e noi bambini in fondo alla piazza [si gridava] «gheneraleu!» , generale! e si vedevano tutti quanti questi soldati muoversi, mettersi in ordine, e dopo vedevano che non era vero niente. Li prendevamo in giro. Bambini!

Per il mangiare ci si arrangiava: polenta, il mangiare friulano. Quando si faceva la polenta c'era tutto.

[...]

La casa era di nostra proprietà, ed eravamo in sessanta di noi, in quella casa, with three women. My mom has had twenty-two children, my aunt who was married twenty-three, eighteen other aunt, and another aunt, my father's sister, winds too.

We had a nice barn with cows, but there they had taken away and we stayed two to three cows in twenty cows that we had before. The barn was full, full. The barn that you see now is the same as it was then.

I was ten years behind me I still had four sisters and before me there were three others. [...] We worked fifty fields, three fields each account and make a hectare. It was a family that was fine.

We did two three hundred hectoliters of wine, or refosco or verduzzo or American.

Then he was also corn, but this time the fields are not rendered as now when they did a ton at the camp was so. Wheat were made five or six pounds.

That time was so, today the trend has changed. Today there are thirty pounds. It has changed, with the issue of fertilizers, all there. [... ]

Tape 1996/24 - Side B

D. Before the arrival of the Germans were the Italians who fled, saw them run away, you, the Italians?

R. Non posso ricordarmi quello, mi ricordo dei tedeschi perché dopo, quando si era bambini, si era anche "arruolati". Si faceva una finta guerra, sì. Ci si addestrava alla guerra. Si giocava nei boschi, si tirava. Scherzavamo: si metteva le cartucce e con un chiodo così partivano. Cartucce ce n'erano dappertutto. C'erano tante di quelle munizioni da fare spavento e chi le voleva le prendeva su, le altre restavano là.

In quell'appezzamento là, mi ricordo che hanno seppellito non so quante casse di bombe. Non so se le hanno levate, dopo, quello non lo so, ma io ho visto metterle giù, far le buche e metter le bombe sotto. S'intende dopo, after the war.

There was plenty of ammunition as they did fear, everywhere, all the qualities. There was a dum-dum, dum-dum bullet, the German was the English, all grades of ammunition.

We children went to school and then every Sunday or Saturday we went to war games on the hills, to distract them. No girls, just kids.

D. No child was hurt playing with these cartridges?

R. No, no, no combination.

[We also played with] a wheel on this hill quavvia, called Candi . It was made to jump and we will go above and sent down this wheel we jumped. The wheel was made of iron, that of the bandwagon. Children, children! No one was hurt.

During the war I had the gun taken up with the bayonet and all wood. But ... place the cartridge, press and parts. He pushed the capsule with a Susta [spring] and went away only crash and parts.

escaping past the Italians do not remember.

Eh, who has seen it! At that time it was an avalanche, the retreat. Everyone was looking for alla più stretta di partire; via, avanti.

Perché era qua a Canebola ... non si ha saputo il nome di chi è stato quel soldato, è stato bravissimo. Tre giorni e tre notti con le metraglie continue. Aveva un tre metraglie ... tac, tac... tre giorni e tre notti continuamente a sparare. Finalmente l'hanno accerchiato i tedeschi e allora l'hanno ammazzato. Tutti dovevano dargli una pestata. L'hanno tagliato a forza di pestare, poverino, non si ha mai saputo chi era.

D. Chi ha detto che l'hanno tagliato?

R. Eh, orco can , sicuro. Quelli di Canebola non sapevano che era un italiano? Lui ha tenuto tre giorni indietro i tedeschi.

Vede lassù la vallata? Si va giù dopo, ed è una strada che arriva in ca' della Jugoslavia. Passavano su, e lui con le mitraglie li ha tenuti indietro per tre giorni.

Lui meritava la medaglia d'oro, quel soldato là; non si è saputo chi fosse.

Noi quando passavano gli italiani in fuga si correva a guardare e basta. Eh, si capisce che si vedevano. Tutti partiti, alla svelta, più che potevano.

Durante l'anno dell'invasione là era il comando, throughout the period that I was, then they started to go: remain here until they began to retreat.

There were prisoners who had to work, and I told him: "Run, run! that the war is over. Escape, you have no fear, the war is over. "They were always afraid, you know, prisoners ... but I told him: "Run away, now that the war is over, run."

I do not know where they went to work. They came to pick them up with the carts, with horses, there were not many trucks that time.

Here there have always been soldiers, since we came back after deserting until it's over.

rest of us had escaped and we came back after an eight to ten days.

We were in San Daniele, and we returned it, where you had to go? There were a whole mess in the streets, no one passed. We had tried to escape, he was left with the cows, with a full of clothes and all, but then, where to go? We came to St. Daniel and stepped back.

Up to S. Daniele whole confusion. Who went, who was. Children, old people, priests, everybody. There was also a priest who had been together.

Together, with the wagon and cows and so on, come on.

arrived in San Daniele went to a family, we were staying and we were there two or three days and then divided again at home. The family name was Giuliani. There was a priest in the family who was then chaplain to shut up.

And there sleeping on the floor, they gave us a piece of polenta and on like this, good. They were very generous, very generous they were.

After we came here, returned, and we found the house in total disarray. Sheets on the ground, horses that have stepped into the kitchen - because the kitchen was great - [leaving] all a dunghill. The sheets were used for horses, throw litter subtype.
Eh, it was a disaster. The wine we have taken away almost everything.

Then you had to deliver. Give a lot of stuff ... in the stable, oo-op! in the cellar, oo-op!

They paid? Yes, his gun!

We had to make do good. [Have taken] misery and suffering, when there was not there. We, too, that we were a family that was well, it was hard.

My father, the family, had a few little '... but we ate it all. Italian had money, but in times of war [has spent all] to buy food. You had to pay dearly.

D. Venivano anche profughi da fuori, dal Piave?

R. Oh, non lo so io. Si giocava, si era bambini ... ma noi non abbiamo visto profughi provenienti da altre zone, dal Piave.

Mio padre era a casa con noi, non era andato militare perché erano esonerati quelli che avevano quattro figli e mio padre ne aveva sei.

Mio padre era del 1874 e si chiamava Antonio. La mamma si chiamava Zane Maria, del 1878.

Io ho 89 anni e ho lavorato fino adesso sulle viti. Non posso star fermo, mai.

[...]

Adesso non faccio niente perché son vecchio. I look a little 'kitchen garden, a bit' of everything. Before I was a farmer, also worked on the campaign. I liked having the campaign. I had passion. But it is ungrateful, it is ungrateful! Today we have with that system of government, we have on the industry, with manure, and the products down. This is the truth.

My daughter who works twelve camps had 185 tons of durum wheat. Pay the expenses have remained there for two million. Durum Wheat: 30,000 lire per quintal. 185 tons on four acres. He did a fine product, but the manure and "hop" ... a sixty tons. [!] The money is all gone in the "salt", plus the cost of herbicide. In short, I stayed about two million of the net, they last three. I said, "is not to put anything." Then she decided to make wood in the forest. Make them work and all that [...].

I have a chance, because I have not any pain.

I do not smoke, I quit, I'm 22 years who do not smoke.

wine, one glass per meal, and that's it, what do you sell, you give away. Grappa, nothing, and in a month I drank half a glass, and yes I'd like, but I will not find alcohol, I feel it immediately to the liver.

I eat everything, everything to me! I eat everything just that is cooked, because I have teeth. Any stuff. Beans, potatoes, pumpkins, not because I'm allergic to dairy cheese.

Since childhood, when they gave me cheese or milk always reduce them.

meat, to say the truth, I'm also sick of meat. I eat a bit 'of salami, two, three slices of salami. Now, for tonight, 2:00 to 3:00 I made tomato, a leg of radicchio, a glass of wine, two to three slices of salami and stop.

D. Returning to the First World War comes to mind some other episode?

R. Eh! more tanto ... quello che sapevo l'ho detto.

[...]

Perché i tedeschi [...] bisogna provarli, bisogna provare i tedeschi cosa sono. Sono duri.

Io sono stato un anno con gli americani, viva la loro faccia! E con gli inglesi, niente.

Gli americani ci hanno trattati non da vinti, da signori. Perché un maresciallo ci diceva: «State là, dentro nella cucina, mangiate e bevete e non fatevi vedere».

Il primo dell'anno del 1945, ho mangiato di colazione una gallina.

Natale del '44 il maresciallo ci ha portato una marmitta così, piena of turkeys. We were at Caserta, the Royal Palace and later gave us a bottle of cognac, because he saw that it worked well. It was clean, helping to cook, to prepare. We were unarmed, he was like now. By now they had won. It was the prisoners, but prisoners so to speak, he had friends, like brothers, we ate together. It was there, we went to get some 'of vegetables and if the share with their oil, and then he brought two bottles of wine and they came to eat with us. [...]

My wife is still young, he's only 80 years, and in 58 years of married life has lost only one virtue, not his fault, that is to not be able to have more children. I say to modern women: not 22 kids, like my mother, but not one or none like them. I had four children.

I have two doctors: one is in pediatrics, who is retired, and a is in Verona, Malcesine anesthetist, nurse more.

I have always worked to help educate, because my father sent me to school and cried because I did not go to school.

I did not like studying, I liked more work, more animals, I had passion. But the ingratitude that is come now I can not say. Even with the wine, so many taxes, many bills. But what you want, I'm the government. Let us live, we do the best we can freely non con questi sistemi qua. Siete voi che ostacolate il commercio. Siete voi che ostacolate tutti. È vero o non è vero? Parliamo onestamente e correttamente, che io son chiaro con le parole, non ho paura di dirle a loro!

Io se fossi capo del governo, sa cosa farei? Tutti li prendo. Tu sei avvocato, e anche il medico: la ricevuta! 

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Mafalda Molinari and Amoreno Venica

Nati rispettivamente nel 1911 a Casali Malina (Orsària di Premariacco, UD) e 1906 a Ipplis. Residenti a Cerneglons (UD).

Informatore Pietro Juri

Nastro 1998/17 - Lato B                            Giovedì 15 ottobre 1998

[...]

Molinari . [Dopo Caporetto, i tedeschi] ... sono venuti i tedeschi, a portar via le bestie.

Il nonno ha fatto un po' di resistenza e loro li hanno ammazzati. Tre morti in casa abbiamo avuto. Sono entrati armati, volevano portar via proprio la vacca che doveva partorire, lui si è opposto. Il nonno, visto che eravamo tanti bambini, ha detto: «Portatemi via tutte le altre, lasciatemi quella là» e loro gli hanno sparato.

Il nonno si chiamava Fabio Molinari. Dopo è morto anche suo fratello che era con lui in quell'occasione e che non era sposato. Non si è più ripreso da quella volta, è stato sempre male.

Il terzo morto sarebbe la nonna, sempre in quell'anno.

Guardi, eravamo tanti bambini, tre donne e mio padre; i fratelli erano tutti di là del Piave.

Dopo un anno che non ci si vedeva è arrivato uno zio, fratello di mio padre. Eravamo bambini e lui diceva: «Oh, come state, bambini, [ci] siete tutti?»

E noi: «Sì, noialtri ci siamo, ma i nonni non ci sono, i nonni non ci sono.»

All'epoca abitavamo di là della Malina [dove siamo passati adesso, dice Pietro Juri] in località chiamata Lippe o "Casali Malina", che sarebbe sotto Orsaria

«Ho tutto ancora davanti agli occhi», di quel periodo.

I tedeschi si sono presentati e sono entrati. Tutto quello che hanno trovato si sono messi a mangiare, e uccidere pollame, tutto.

D. Voi non potevate scappare?

R. How? And where would you escape? We stayed where we were in our house.

[Juri, intervenes and asks - Why the Germans did not arrive in Padua, in three days? Precisely because the troops, the bulk was lost in the countryside: drunk, drunk 24 hours of general and complete.]

An elderly this interview: "They killed the pig and drank the grease."

Molinari. We have always been firm where we lived, two kilometers away from here. Where to escape? Where would you go? ...

I remember che gli italiani [i soldati] scappavano. Erano tutti disorganizzati, però non avevano fatto malanni nelle case, non ci avevano rubato niente.

Mio padre è andato via di là del Piave, assieme agli altri militari italiani e ai suoi fratelli. Erano quattro fratelli, tutti militari e tutti quattro sono andati di là del Piave.

La nostra famiglia, che è rimasta qua, era composta dal nonno, la nonna e due cognate, mia mamma e la zia e in più noi bambini che eravamo in cinque, due bambine e tre maschi. Dell'altro ceppo, quello della zia, erano in altri tre bambini.

Lavoravamo la terra del conte Puppi di Moimacco. Non so se il conte sia left, but I think it got away.

During the years of German ... to eat little, you did not have anything, because at our house every two or three whole days net. And we were two families. What could you hide?

Luckily there were two families here in the country that brought us something and sometimes you could go forward because the rest of us to take everything in our house.

One day came the guards with a bunches of straw, a little. "Do not be taken away even that" they told the guards "when they are near shouted" police, police! "."

D. Thus, according to the leaders should not steal. Why steal the same, then?

R. to eat! It's always been so. One eats a lot and the other does not eat anything ...

None, however, has just died of starvation, the rest of us, no.

D. It 's true that some women were raped, children who are born of these German soldiers.

R. Yes, yes, they are born, yes.

D. Maybe the girls were okay?

R. No, I do not think. What I do not know I can say.

Juri. Personally I have known someone or is it a rumor?

A family. is compromising. There has been some violence, but intermarriage between Germans and the local girls, here, is not, while in the second war there have been marriages ...

Pavan. They came up to you to beg from other countries even poorer, from the mountains?

Molinari. They will come, but I do not remember.

D. When they arrived the Italians in 1918, do you remember?

R. I do not remember well when they arrived.

I remember my uncle David came and us children worked, what could be.
"Hey kids, you all!?
" Yes, the rest of us are, but grandparents there are, "we said.
" Unfortunately, I found out in Udine. "

had arrived in Udine and was gone from a tobacconist who was one of the country and was named Gildo Barazzutti . He knew what had happened and had informed his uncle that the Germans had killed his father and mother.

Barazza had a tobacco shop as you enter from here in Udine, passing the Tower, in Butterwick, the first house. Barazzutti This was a bit like a 'particular, a kind of caricature, but everyone who went there - why not go downtown to drink a glass of wine, went in the suburbs - all stopped by Barazza, whether they were either went to Udine. The stage from Barazzutti was essential, therefore he knew everything. [...]

D. How behaved Italians when they arrived?

R. I have no special memories.

Juri . Also because they lived a bit 'out of the country.

A family . [Lived] there where there is the ford, two hundred meters before ... not the last you see in the lower house near the canal, the Cividina. The ford was called Malina and the whole place was called Casali Malina.

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Amoreno Venica . I remember that we attacked four beasts of the cart and we escaped. Premariacco arrived on the bridge we stopped and we just turned the car blew the bridge.
There were two bridges: the old one had broken a little and it went into the other one Natisone.

I have not seen blow up the bridge, because the guards stopped us before, a couple of hundred meters before. There were Italian soldiers.

As soon as we turned the car we heard the explosion. Then we went down to Oleis, Manzano to Pavia [Udine]. At Pavia, we learned that the Germans were on the cut. We stopped at a house where the owners had fled. We stayed there for three days. To eat: a little 'home-made bread, a bit' of polenta, in short, we have arranged. On the cart were eight brothers, dad and mom. [...]

in Pavia, we saw no German. Italian soldiers, many, a whole column (which were taken prisoner). We were in the midst of a column. A column that has been Pradamano by up to Pavia, with the wagons, with mules. We found ourselves in the middle with our chariot drawn by four cows, two front and two behind. [To bring them with us ... to relieve, if necessary, on the way].

To drive the chariot was my dad who was named Dominic. Mother and we children were on the wagon, it was raining.

On the wagon we had put a bit 'of everything, including wine, a cask of wine, turkeys and geese. Up, everything.

son explains. It was a great car, four-wheeled wagons like the characteristic of the place. At the center had a floor that could be off, say, six feet tall and three to four meters long.

Venica . It was a barrel by two hectoliters ... turkeys, geese. I sat on the wagon, and it rained. Without there in the column ... we went home.

1998/18 Tape - Side A

Discussion origin (ancient Slavic? Selva-black?) Cerneglons name, now living in the territory of which the family of the interviewee.

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Venica . Returned from Pavia, at home we did not find anything. We had two heifers and those we had taken a neighbor, who then have it returned. But the pork with twelve piglets, two of which were ready to be killed, had disappeared. Inside the mobile home but were still there, but the furniture once it was known, not like now: a table, a little 'chairs.

A Ipplis no one could escape, that I know, none. The only people who have tried to run away we were.

D. How was life during the year the Austrian occupation?

R. Like polenta, ate. We went with the cart to the mill and the mill was Leproso. [...]. The owner of that was Bergolini.

The Germans were often so much so that my mother - who wanted to save a turkey - they shot her. There were two Austrian soldiers. They have not taken because one of them moved the barrel of a gun that his companion had counted on my mom. He won my mother and two of them went away without turkey.
Eh such moments in there!
My mother's name was Caterina Gasparini.

We went to the mill and was all the guns in ditches, abandoned. We take the rifle and shot the mulberries as shooting!
But many kids are picking up the bombs on the ground dead. They saw the bombs, the taking and pulled up. Hand grenades left by the Italians before escaping. In the early days there were weapons everywhere. [...]

When Italians came back we were out in the country and we have not seen anything. [...] For us it was an ordinary day, work to collect what little was left.

I remember the Russians, poor people, prisoners. They came to the door and: 'Mama, cucurussa, cucurussa ", which means corn, corn on the cob. Contented themselves with even a handful of cucurussa . We had the sheaves with the barrel of corn and the Russians poured it over all to find some small piece of corn on the cob as well.
Eh poor people, the Russians. Did nothing, were taken prisoner by the Germans, always Ipplis, at Le Baronesse. It was a castle, a villa.

When they arrived Italians have not played the bells, because there were no bells, had taken away.

Molinari. Neither do I remember that there has been some party to the return of the Italians. The bells were all taken away.

Venica . I remember we had to save a cow through the woods bordering the Baronesse, Ipplis because there are hills, was a forest of acacias. And be careful, always a guard, who the beast muggisse, alone in the woods because the beast would roar. This happened during the retreat of the Germans ... and two pigs in a tub in the middle of cornfields.

After a while 'time that Italians have arrived we received a horse, but can not remember if we paid for it or if we have received for free.

She has received every farmer, a horse to work. He was a horse of the military, a good horse, I do not know the breed. The front was attached to the cows, and go! Four or six cows were more a horse for plowing. Of course, those who had, otherwise you just plowing with cows.

Repayment of the war damage we received when I was a soldier in '26. They pulled along until the jury has said that we did not have much damage but [...] those who had minor damage have pulled more!

The Germans left a cow for family and those who had not even found himself with three-four cows "of war damages" and who had two ended up with one.

[Once] the Germans gave us a voucher for the wine they had taken. My father went by the police in the country and [they said] above was written: "The old cat drink wine without paying." It was a proverb, a joke written in German.

Eh, would be so many things, but who remembers!

In that year the Germans did not go to school but to work.

I the first job I did was on the toll of Ipplis. It took 12 years to go to that place, and I was 11. But my mother with a couple of chickens to the station master made me put on "Crosada. But it was still before they left the Italians, when there was a train leaving from Moimacco and went almost to Gorizia.

was a single track, narrow gauge. I was on the box with the red flag to stop if I saw a wagon or a car across the street. I took 90 pounds per month. There were many ... and eating and drinking by soldiers.

My father was not at war, had more than four children and worked the fields. My mother worked at home.

reserves face [Isonzo], when they sent them to rest, were in Thick of Cividale, on the road to the Horn of Rosazzo. There was a large field. There came the airlines ... the 4:00 to 5:00 that were left.

They stayed there until 15-20 days by reforming the company and again at the front.

I saw them, yes. The place was about two miles from our home. I remember a lieutenant of sharpshooters l'ho trovato a Bologna, dopo. Io ero carabiniere e lui comandava la mia tenenza. Mi ha chiesto se conoscevo la zona di Villa Rubini di Spessa dove c'era il campo.

Mi ricordo che poi questi soldati venivano da noi e mangiavano la colza e la condivano con un grasso qualsiasi, pur di sfamarsi, o meglio, pur di sentire qualcosa di diverso, come per una golosità.

Quando ero con la bandierina rossa mangiavo dove era il comando e alla sera mi portavo a casa una bella porzione di pastasciutta. Ogni giorno pastasciutta. Facevano di quegli spaghetti larghi così, me lo ricordo ancora, conditi con tanto di quel formaggio che non si staccavano neppure.

La colza l'adoperavamo instead of broccoli, boiled and seasoned with salt oil and vinegar. The soldiers who took the sharing with grease from the kitchen. It was a delicacy for them, a bit 'of vegetables. [...]

The railroad I worked on ranged from Moimacco Mossa, right up to the front, almost. Carrying weapons, bombs.

A Moimacco there was also a military court, and where was the Count de Puppi, there were across the board.

unloaded from a train that went from Udine to Cividale, Moimacco station, and from there the train was leaving.

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First Martin, Rovarè of San Biagio di Callalta (TV)

Born October 26, 1907. Montello resident in the village Santa Maria della Vittoria.

1986/25 Tape - Side A October 26, 1986

Our family broke up in 1921. Before we ate them all at pignata and we were 127 people, but who lived in four houses. He had tenants of the Baron honest country.

A house was Rovarè of San Biagio, town Ca 'Lion , Callalta another along the way, another long the calle Fatutto locations and one in the town of Breda. [...]

We paid rent to the Baron Onesti kinds of country ... [explains the type of agricultural management and production company] .

1986/25 Tape - Side B

[...]

In 1917 I lived in Rovarè along the area known in Callalta Fatutto. From Treviso to go to Ponte di Piave on the left. The land was crossed by the railroad, the house was beyond the railway and was Callalta border with our country.

Three days before de San Martin ... now had twenty days they had closed the schools because there was the troop that passed on Callalta and had to do three miles of road to go to school, you had to walk along the Callalta up near the police of San Biagio ...

When the defeat came I was a kid. I saw all these soldiers and wondered: "Where they go, pores fioi ?

All those soldiers who walked, and we had kids excited.

There were those who went to the park bulls seize the beasts, and also came to our house. Were mounted on horseback cows and oxen were walking along the Ponte di Piave Callalta coming from and going to Treviso. For three days.

After - all of a sudden - blocked. Reverse.

Why, I had explained to the officers, [first] Cadorna was going to do the line of the barrier on the Po, but that came after they made on the Piave. And we would have been even five hundred meters from the Piave.

As they began to go back, came in for our house in the countryside, which was also large as well as long.

One evening he came into a platoon of police and told my grandfather, "Grandpa, where are you the haystack? "My grandfather mentioned it to him:" You there, "because my father was a soldier too.

We had a kitchen as long as the whole house and the police have put the straw along the walls of the kitchen, on the one hand and on the other in the middle of the table, and have not even bothered. They stood there talking, so, with a glass of wine on the table, but those who held a Boccalone ten liters, when he came in a captain bold.

They did not ask permission. He came in, introduced himself there, he looked around, "Grandpa, those who prepared this straw here? "And my grandfather:" Poor fioi, must sleep ... '. The captain is down, took the dagger he had on boots, and he planted on the table: "You go and find another place," he said, "because this is for me," And even if they were policemen, they had leave.

After less than a quarter of an hour came the bold, who took over from the police.

The captain entered last, and says to his grandfather: "Here there is no wine, where you have your cake?" And the grandfather "Come in question Fiol, come from here " . He was trembling with fear because of this, an antiquated ... and brought the captain where, under a ladder, there was a barrel of five hectoliters, so a big barrel.

Sotto, who knows el spinel [spigot], the barrels ... My grandfather took el bocal [pitcher] and went to tap wine, and the captain back. When he saw this spinel, before you fill el bocal the captain pulls out his gun. Three or four gunshots ... and he was Italian. [Drilled the barrel].

the morning as they left early. For their part, and I do not know where they have sent ... about nine and a half to ten are within three officers. I do not remember that they can, and I happily, "Look, I said, there are soldiers still here."

They told me: "Bocia, where is your father?"

"My father is military," I replied.

"Who you home?"

"My grandfather

"Go call your grandfather!"

was in the barn. I went, "Grandpa, it turns out that there are soldiers who want to talk with you." - "Who am I?" - "I do not know, are mounted on horseback"

And my grandfather comes out.

"Grandpa - he said - that there porch, you must free. Bring out the tanks ... "

There were wagons, versors [plow], rakes, everything.

"Why, fiol?" ha detto mio nonno.

«Perché ci occorre a noi» – «Si ma io... » – «Beh, fai quello che puoi»

Dopo un'ora, un'ora e mezzo, è entrato uno squadrone di cavalleria e hanno tirato fuori tine , tinassi , tutti quanti gli attrezzi che si adoperavano per l'agricoltura. Hanno tirato due corde metalliche da una parte all'altra ma per [legare] i cavalli non erano ancora sufficienti, allora hanno piantato una corda nel cortile, distante quattro metri da casa.

Then I went on the floor, the floor was full of corn, and made the palota [shovel] Wood - who once had that palota of wood affixed to mix the cob - and throw out corn for the balcony, to feed the horses.

These soldiers have said his grandfather not to leave, because "two or three days the Germans go by and you stay here." It must have been 7 or 8 November.

Instead, the 11, the day of San Martin, when it was three and a half to four entered a platoon of policemen, with rifles and bayonets, "Away from here, away from here, away, away because there is the last [...] train from Spercenigo. "

My mother asked," But where are you taking us? "He was cooking the goose for the feast of St. Martin and he had to leave there all the pot, poultry ... beasts, filled the barn.

led us to Spercenigo and we boarded the train.

We asked: "Where are you taking us?" - "Oh, they told, just beyond Treviso, Padua before. 'And we ran three nights and three days. They took us to Naples!

was a troop who had three steam engines and must have been too long. Because he had taken on people from all sides, including those of Friuli, not just ours. After you have attached the other translated to other machines.

A car was left without coal when Ferrara was down there for those campaigns, which are those vineyards with the poles. They stopped and went to raise the stakes for the vines to fire on the car of the train.

I told her it would take una giornata a raccontare tutto!

A Napoli, quando siamo arrivati ci hanno messo sulle case dell'Ospizio Marino. [...]

Siamo arrivati come questa sera verso le sette e domani mattina ci hanno messo a dormire su un salone. Si era cinque figli, e mia madre fa sei.

Alla mattina passava il dottore a fare la visita e ha trovato un fratello mio, quattro anni più giovane, che aveva tutti gli occhi rossi e ha detto: «Questo bisogna portarlo sull'ospedale». Mentre lo portavano via, mia madre si è messa a piangere. Il dottore le ha detto: «Signora, mettiamo un cartello sulla porta, che lei non is disturbed. As long as his son does not heal, she does not move from here. "

Then they started coming of the Lords to bring candy and this and that, for these refugees who arrived, and even things to wear. On the third day we were there, now was flattered when he saw this group of gentlemen ran to get something.

One afternoon, about three o'clock, a man as big as my son, well, a little bigger, to me: 'Come here, Bocia, come here. "

I got closer, I thought it would give me something, instead I asked, "Where is the Dad?

'and military'

"Your mother, where is it?"

"It's in room, room '

" How many of you "

" We are five '

"Vammi to call your mother," and I go.

"sea, come fora that ghe xe a co Sior that you speak vol."

My mother is coming out, con le lacrime agli occhi, e lui:

«Signora, guardi, se lei accetta ... io - ormai ne ho trovati degli altri qua - mi occorre [ho posto per] ancora un poca di gente.»

Questo sior era il principe Colonna di Napoli.

A Posillipo c'è l' Ospizio Marino , e loro l'avevano vuoto. Il principe ha detto: «Se lei mi dice [di sì], prepari quel po' di robe che ha e io vengo qui col tram» – che là c'erano i tram che circolavano – «e vi porto there. "

My mother said yes, and we were there.

[in our family] we were alone and the mother, because all the others were scattered. We have not gathered that when, in '19, we came home after the war.

At home we have found three cabins.

Our house was gone, but that of that of Faon Calion and had remained standing, but was left standing only the skeleton of the houses . Except that of Calion - that the stable was made with slab of cement - the military, or to fire, or to make shelters and refuges have pulled out all the floors, balconies, doors. It was all gone.

And the campaign? You could not even leave until the raid was over. They did the raid before dismissing the German prisoners. But three months we have been under surveillance by the guards of the military would not let us go out into the countryside, because if you went out of ammunition were everywhere.

I ran away several times, I saw a little 'ground move, I found a "Miss". He knows they were the girls, once? They were a piece of wood so long, with a bussolotto come quelli della birra. Nella punta avevano l'elica.

Avevo visto gli altri soldati come facevano ... l'elica aveva un cerchietto [na sc'ionèa] . Bisognava tirarlo via e svitarlo.Quando la si lanciava con il manico e [la signorina] cadeva, l'elica aveva un percussore che andava a battere la capsula e scoppiava.

Così, quando io ne ho trovata una, ho fatto anch'io come avevo visto fare gli altri, perché quando si è boce si imparano le malagrazie alle svelte. Ho preso di quelle pedate sul culo, quando hanno sentito questa schioppettata!

[The girls] were like grenades, but other than Sipe.

We got home after the war, in September 1919. It had been almost a year after the war. There were still German prisoners and the land was not reclaimed.

We had to [wait] because in the spring after the winter we never could do anything. Even sow. Because the screws and mulberry trees, for the most part, they were all mowed down at this height here, because the fighting had come beyond the Piave and we had five hundred yards from the bank.

We began to sow in '20, in the spring of 1920. [...]

In 1921 he was still on the barracks. A Faon had three cabins and the other strains of the family had two each. Others were placed in Teze, if there were.

After co-operatives have done and now the floors have begun to put in place the houses were left standing. [Because] one was completely destroyed: that was also the closest to the line of fire and was on the village called San Bartolo.

Then came that we are divided because there was no room for all, and we parted in 1921.

My poor father with my older brother took a year off in the swamp of the Seven Sisters in San Stino, between the railway and Triestina.

there the first year has been even worse failure. Next came that Mussolini made the reclamation, which pulled to drain the swamp of the Seven Sisters, and we took malaria.

us who came from places that there was no malaria, we were the first to take it, because those who were born there were more resistant. [...]