“Memento Audere Semper”: some historical explanations
the controversy of Montesano and the X Mas t-shirt with the inscription "Memento Audere semper" would make us laugh, if we didn't have to cry for the average level of ignorance of those who created this ridiculous controversy.
THE MOTTO.
The motto was created by Gabriele D'Annunzio to ennoble, in 1918, the acronym "Motobarca armata SVAN", which indicated the light torpedo boats used by the Regia Marina in assault operations, such as the sinking of the "Santo Stefano" or the Mockery of Buccari, in which the Poet himself took part. In itself it has nothing to do with fascism, unless every Italian war enterprise is defined as fascist, by default. Among other things, the motto precedes both the birth of the X MAS and fascism. The meaning is then similar to another Latin motto still widely used today, obviously by those who know a little Latin, "Fortuna audacis iuvat" Fortune helps the bold …
THE X MAS
The X MAS was, during World War II, an extremely prepared and courageous group of raiders who sank, with minimal but astute means, 100,000 tons of enemy shipping, including two battleships, cruisers and tankers. At the armistice, the X MAS was divided, like many units, between North and South. In the South it reformed as MariAssalto and still carried out important missions in sabotaging the activities of the Germans in the north (sinking of the Bolzano and of the aircraft carrier Aquila, which fell into German hands ), for which he earned medals. For example, the famous raider Luigi Durand De La Penne, later admiral, joined MariAssalto. Borghese's X MAS reformed in the North, whose history, as we know, is more controversial. however the X MAS "before the armistice" still has its page on the Navy website, and it couldn't be otherwise, with as many as 31 gold medals awarded to its members. Do we also want to condemn the Navy?
Having said that, it seems that Montesano's shirt bore a symbol of the Decima MAS which, in turn, was nothing more than a combination of the symbols of the arditi of the First World War and which can be connected to the Decima repubblichina, but I cannot exclude that it was used also from that of the Regia Marina. If he probably had an effigy of Stalin no one would have had anything to say…. However a motto that invites to be daring must cause pure terror in the not full heads of the modern conformist left.
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