In Memory Of A Courageous Italian

While there's lots of ink and pixels being pored out over the Costa Concordia cruise ship fiasco, especially about the shameful behavior of her captain and crew, I have another image of Italians that will stick with me forever, long after this fiasco recedes onto the back pages, and from there into history's dustbin of forgotten incidents. And that image is of one Fabrizio Quattrocchi, who minutes before his head was filled with bullets by Islamists in Iraq, cried out "I'll show you how an Italian dies." That man was one courageous dude who will do Italians proud for a good long time.