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His Life

Short Story of the life of Giuseppe Torcasio

November 15, 2013
Giuseppe spent his childhood growing up on a farm in Calabria Itay with his two brothers and six sisters he worked plowing fields with his two oxen, At the age of 20 Giuseppe left Calabria to go to Rome for his national service in 1939  at the same time World War II erupted Giuseppe Torcasio fought in North Africa for three years during World War II (known as the campaign of North Africa)The Italians were in joint forces with the German army. Giuseppe Torcasio was in the Italian heavy artillery battery with 2 x Obice da 149/19 model 37 heavy howitzers a World War II veteran who saw action in Tobruk and the battles for El Alamein North Africa, Giuseppe was very fortunate to have survived the war from all of the allied aerial bombardment and machine gun fire.
By 1943 the war in North Africa had been lost shortly after Italy surrendered the last two years of the war he spent in the mountains of northern Itay as It was unsafe for him to try and get back to the south of Italy where he lived because if the Germans caught him he would have been shot, Giuseppe was asked many times to join the partisans in the area but he refused as they were under-gunned poorly managed and corrupt.
"Long story history books do not tell the truth"

 He had several close calls in those two years spent in north Italy as Giuseppe worked on farms. The Germans would visit these farms and speak to the owners asking if they had seen any Italian soldiers in the  area, the Italians were terrified of Germans and didn't tell them anything, and then there were also the spies traitors, and fascists,
On one occasion in the middle of the night, Giuseppe was woken by the farm owners  barking dogs he got up and saw two German soldiers walking up the hill towards the shed where he was sleeping he ran back behind the shed and into the forest where he stayed till daybreak,
This happened again the very next night, But this time the Germans had burnt down the shed, If caught Giuseppe would have been killed. These were " white paper" years in Europe, Giuseppe had just spent three long years fighting in the desert sands of North Africa he didn't plan on being killed back in his own country, This farm owner was shot not long after this incident happened for supporting fascism.

He was safely able to return home and reunite with his family whom they didn’t know if he was going to return as they had no contact throughout the period of time battling in the war.
Shortly after returning back home, both parents passed away in a short period of time. As the only son still at home, he looked after his four sisters who were at home. Before Giuseppe was able to get married, he had to make sure his sisters were married first.
In the late 50s, he met his wife Giovanna, and shortly after were married. In 1962 they had their first child Pasquale. One year later, in June 1963 Giuseppe came to Australia alone, where he found work at Ford Motor Company. Two years later Giovanna and Pasquale arrived in Australia and lived in their first home in Coburg. In 1968 their second child John was born.
 In his retirement years, Giuseppe spent most of his time in his vegetable garden which he enjoyed, and also did the odd jobs around the house, as he was a multi-skilled and jack of all trades.

He was a loving husband and father and will be dearly missed and never forgotten. His spirit will always be with us now and forever. May you rest in peace.

   Papà you are forever in our thoughts sadly missed and eternally loved,
   I know you are Safe In God's keeping and Sleeping with angels.
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  Papà Until we meet again, Your son John..