Once upon a time, SquadraAtlantica gathered several men
who flew beyond their World
to make their Country great.

I want to remember those men and their Adventure
because I want to honor their Idea
of greatness and heroism, not an Ideology.

The most powerful means are useless without a brave driver.
Great ideas are empty without a brave heart to carry them out.
But we can understand great ideas, values, principles,
even if we didn’t achieve great deeds.
We can remember them and pay them tribute through our behavior,
our work, our lifestyle.

Some people gave their lives for their Country,
for Honor and Freedom.
These ideas appear so distant now.
Nowadays, it feels like these values have been lost
in the memories of the elderly people,
replaced by pushiness, speculation, slyness.

Even if I’m just making a shirt,
I want to remember Squadraatlantica
and – as far as I can –
to keep alive the essence
of the men who believed in those Values.

I want to take their Faces out of the Museums,
I want to write on my shirts their Names.
I follow men who did well because I want to do well.

I do want to offer a good and honest product,
carefully manufactured with the same passion
that encouraged someone to design a seaplane
that still today holds the speed record.

From the simplest things, great changes may begin.
In the little everyday actions,
we can find the spirit of what we can become.
Squadratlantica remembers and celebrates the Memory, learning from the past.

Studying the past we can face the present and look at the future.

Looking into ourselves,
we can find the strength of those men that became strong and exemplary,
we can go on day after day,
we can avoid the action that while appearing harmless
but may lead to the same abyss in which the Human Spirit has fallen before.

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