Recently, 4 Italian “Alpini” troopers died (just 4 more…), ambushed while escorting an US truck convoy, waiting for our Mongoose helicopters to clean up the area.
No intention to talk about politics here…only a deja-vu feeling, and some sadness…
“Kolonna idiot” (The column goes), a 25-years-old Russian song still on subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7xkVDqBsU
This is the Song of the Helicopter Gunner…dedicated here to our choppers, reportedly so much appreciated by Spanish, American, German and British troopers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJP0QI974o
Now, we may ask ourselves why we don’t have such a huge musical production, compared to the Russians…maybe because we haven’t reached the 15000 casualties’ figure yet…