Grosseto, 19 June 2024 – White and blue roses. Place on the light coffin. On the sides the white uniforms of the officers of the Navy. Boys like him, in tears. Boys who shared the years at the Academy with him. The last farewell to was heartbreaking Pietro Stipathe 26-year-old second lieutenant of Vascello from Grosseto who died in the tragic accident that occurred at Madeleine in the night between last Saturday and Sunday. But together with Peter’s leaders and military colleagues, too Grosseto she made herself “felt”. Hundreds of people arrived under her house in Corso Carducci. And then a packed Piazza Dante, in a deafening silence, followed with its eyes that boy who flew away too soon. No applause, only sadness. During the “silence” played on the trumpet next to the Navy picket of honor. For a great tribute reserved for a boy who, in the few years of service, deserved the greatest recognition from the body in which he blindly believed.
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The colleagues of the special underwater departments, those closest to Pietro, who became men together with that man from Grosseto who “everyone loved” were also desperate and astonished. In fact, the military chaplain who celebrated mass in the Grosseto Cathedral began the funeral service with these words.
After the Ave Maria of the Puccini Choir it was the Silence that resonated in the naves. “We came from all over the world to be next to Pietro and his family – said the military chaplain –. He was a good and humble boy”. Heartfelt words in the most terrible moment: “The end at 26 is inexplicable – he added –. The only thing to do is pray. The adhesion of our heart, even for non-believers, must be maximum for his loved ones” . Then the final farewell: “Peter didn’t have time to repent. Because he was too young and good to have committed sins.”
