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362 100 YEARS OF THE ITALIAN HELMET 1915-2015

an ideal bond, that after a hundred years still exists between the citizen and the professional
conscript in the Karst, who now operates in Afghanistan or Lebanon.
The helmet (blue, if possible), is an indispensable defense tool. It is still considered the best
tool to protect the head for those who try to negotiate and achieve peace, whereever it is ab-
sent or at risk. The important thing is to have the brain to want it ... and do it! Only by helping
the actual peacekeepers to resolve international disputes, the headgear metal would honor the
memory of the millions of dead, whose only hope was to live in peace. Only some bloodthirsty
madman could hope again for helmets to have the role of top on white crosses in a cemetery
full of broken lives, only to call to mind the legendary glories of past myths, to reincarnate into
supermen of millennial fate.