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| Grave of Ferdinando Sacco (of Sacco and Vanzetti) |
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| Example of a fallen soldier's grave from WWI |
We got up early this morning and went on a circle tour of
cemeteries, stopping in Campomarino, San Severo and Torremaggiore to visit our
dearly departed relatives and family friends. The annual trip is one that
always reminds me that life is precious as I see cousins who passed younger
than me and around my age.
Part of the trip was also like a history lesson, as in I got
to see a whole wall of the San Severo cemetery that displays the remains of the
town’s fallen soldiers from the Grande Guerra (the Big War or WWI). In Torremaggiore,
the grave of Ferdinando Sacco’s (of Sacco and Vanzetti – if you haven’t heard
of them, Google it and demand your history teacher be fired) bears a monument
presented to the townspeople by Michael Dukakis, then Governor of Massachusetts.
The monument basically says, “we were wrong, and we are deeply sorry.”
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| The wall of San Severo's fallen WWI soldiers |
Considering my job as a Special Ed/History teacher, and
considering all of the history that I saw today and photos I will use in
lessons, can I now use this entire trip as a tax write-off? I’ll also be
heading to the Anne Frank house in August so can I count that trip too? CPAs
please advise.
