by Angelo F. Coniglio

Lee Coppola, a fellow Sicilian-American, recently reviewed "My Two Italies" for The News. It's a book by Joseph Luzzi that tells of the disdain many northern Italians have for "southerners" (those from the south of Italy and Sicily). It led me to reflect on an experience I had in the '50s while serving with the U.S. Army in Germany.

Bill Tufillaro, Tom Tirone and I, all soldier-sons of Sicilian immigrants, were on leave in Copenhagen, Denmark. On our first night, we visited the famed Tivoli Gardens, an open public park – sort of a combination of Delaware Park and the old Crystal Beach Amusement Park.

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