professional Letter to Chief Engineer CNVVF Pini Chiarissimo Ingegner Pini.
Come ebbi a mio tempo ad evidenziare, in un recente passato trascorso nel sindacato, quando era in me ancora prevalente la convinzione, che questo fosse ancora pregno del significato etimologico che dovrebbe appartenergli di “insieme per la giustizia”, scoprendolo invece dotato di una deludente alterità, è mia ferma convinzione che l’uniforme dei Vigili del Fuoco, debba rappresentare il simbolo e l’orgoglio di essere parte integrante del Corpo ed in quanto tale, di rappresentare ed incarnare l’essenza dei principi universali di tutela e salvaguardia della sicurezza, public and private safety, these principles, which undoubtedly belong to us. When we wear uniforms, we become responsible for the prestige of the fire service, we become a symbol of the National Fire Department and that is why I am convinced that I welcomed his circular entitled: "Using service uniform during events "as a first step towards the improvement of the degradation of body image which has assisted so far in fact, without a necessary turnaround, I would expect to see, sooner or later, a uniform Firefighters wore in a neo-Nazi rally.
However
appeared to me almost instinctively ask, but especially chierLe: a perspective of this kind, it is fitting and appropriate use of the uniform supplied, on the occasion of strikes or industrial action or political union? From Turin to Palermo, there is far too long, or inability, sometimes, the desire not to see the difference between the body representing the National Fire Department as an institution that embodies the principles that are proper and represent the Brigade Fire as men, albeit special, but always employed, a boundary which, although subtle in appearance, in reality is essentially defined and particularly remarked.
And 'my firm belief that, strikes, demonstrations or at least down to the streets in uniform at the time, contrary to what you believe or are willing to believe, it becomes recognizable to the outside, not as belonging to this or that unions, but for inevitable transcendence as fire departments, such as the National Fire Corps as an institution of the State, so while you can (rightly) be freely without first being authorized National Corp , there is a paradox that a firefighter can now freely take part in a parade representing union members, wearing that uniform, which inevitably leads to his image, at that precise moment, at a higher level of representation, or directly from the imposition of Fire, on the other side can not represent the National Body as an institution, primarily because in different situations, the previous lack of staff, does not employ staff. For this logic, a trade union demonstration, you see a lot of firefighters in uniform representation and almost always non-institutional "niche", but strangely in events where there is a need to represent the establishment of the National, si veda ad esempio i funerali della piccola Sarah Scazzi, i Vigili del Fuoco erano gli unici grandi assenti.
Per queste ragioni vorrei non dover più assistere a sfilate di uomini in uniforme durante manifestazioni sindacali o politico sindacali, in quanto, mentre l’uniforme rappresenta anche me, un sindacato, un partito politico o una mera ideologia, può rappresentarmi come persona, ma sicuramente non rappresenta il Corpo Nazionale Vigili del Fuoco. Con la speranza che in un prossimo futuro, possa incontrarla personalmente, nel ringraziarla del tempo dedicatomi Le porgo distinti saluti.
Manduria lì 15 ottobre 2010 V.P. Valentino Prezzemolo
