Last Respects for General Graziano

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"Today, for the last time, the big family of the Defence embraced General Claudio Graziano, a great servant of the Republic. Thank you for everything Claudio, may you walk the highest summits of Heaven. We love you".
Thus Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in his last, touching farewell to General Claudio Graziano.

The funeral was celebrated today by the Military Ordinary Monseigneur Santo Marciano' at Rome Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, crowded with common citizens, civilian and military authorities and representatives of the institutions.

"Remembering Claudio means remembering a wise man, in the broadest sense of the word. A soldier whose life has soon turned into a star, not only for his closer friends, but for Italy, Europe, the world", the Military Ordinary said in his sermon remembering General Graziano, a former Chief of Defence Staff.