MONTE CASSINO
81 miles - southeast of Rome - is Monte
Cassino. If you
ever get to Rome, get to
Cassino. Go to the mountain!
If you do, you’ll be standing on history.
It’s been the place of religion and power
through the centuries: BC and AD.
It’s been bombed and blasted - sacked
and rebuilt - over and over again. It’s the
place Benedict and monks praised God.
People died here, cried here, worshiped
and watched from here - and waves of
soldiers climbed and clawed to the top.
Monte Cassino - if you get there, wonder
there, get what happened here, you’ll say
“I’ve been to the mountain!” in a new way.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2019
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