Mourning for the death of the partisan Carlo Serio, the memory of the Anpi of Lucca.
“Our partisan Carlo Serio is no longer among us but his name will remain in our hearts as indelible are the names of those partisans who left us before him – says the Anpi – Nara Marchetti, whose voice still today calls us to fight, to defend our Constitution with firm and confident words, which only those who ‘he had conquered that Charter, he could pronounce. Our Luciano Caselli, who fortunately did not suffer the end of his great friend Partigiano Bartolozzi Roberto, killed by the Nazi-fascists on that sad day of 29 June 1944. Renato Ghiri who died the day after whispering with us Hello beautiful. Paolo Boldracchi who had spent his youth defending freedom in Piedmont, his birthplace”.
“Today Carlo Serio – continues the president Romano Zipolini – the last partisan from Lucca, our honorary president but above all a militant of the Anpi of Lucca, until he had the strength to sit at that desk and read the books he piled up there. A tireless soldier guarding his second home, the home of all anti-fascists, the home of confrontation, the home of the plurality of ideas, which sometimes it was necessary to calm and free from the mists of heated discussions and Serio with a calm voice and a disarming smile he managed to clear the fog that words created. With you Lucca loses a garrison of democracy because, with your great actions as a young thirteen year old boy, you gave us democracy. Men like Serio not only pass on the memory of their nobility of soul but the effectiveness of their actions and all democrats owe them gratitude. We at ANPI mourn his absence today because, even though he has no longer been physically present for some time, his ancient way of living his love for the Anpi was with us, which he taught us but sometimes we were distracted students”.
