Greg, I was pleased you remembered the Devil's Brigade in Rome. My wife and I just returned from the battlegrounds of the Special Forces on the mountains shouldering the Mignano Gap and Hill 720. 1SSF had passed through Rome when the 88th got its deserved tumultuous welcome. My wife, a painter, is completing 10 large paintings of the Liri Valley campaign, and I a biography of a soldier who was there and won the DSO on the Gothic Line, Canada's most significant military victory since Vimy Ridge in First World War.
