This medal commemorates the 50 year anniversary of the first world war.  

 Italy was on the winning side in that war.  The medal was
awarded to living individuals who served at least 6 months in the Italian
military before 1920.  This one was awarded to  Lucy Fichera Van der Hoeven's

 grandfather, Salvatore Cafarella.

The follow up photos.  The two colour attachments are from the award dinner
for the above medal.
Standing behind Salvatore is cousin Maria.  At table are Uncle Domenic Cafarella,
Salvatore Cafarella, Uncle Peter Cafarella, Rosa Fichera, and Aunt Toni.  Salvatore's wife Nella
(Sebastianna), among others, was also there but is not pictured.

Aunt Toni was married to Uncle Domenic.  Toni is great granddaughter to
Gaetano and Giovanna Vasquez through Vincezo son of Francesco.  Domenic is
Great grandson through Salvatore son of Domenico.  Maria is their daughter

 

Mildred Cafarella Borghini Sinor's son

An FBI agent was honored Wednesday for his work stopping a human trafficking ring with connections to Panama City Beach.
Lawrence P. Borghini, a special agent (SA) with the FBI Jacksonville Division, was named the recipient of the FBI’s Civil Rights Program Award, in recognition of his efforts to dismantle a criminal human trafficking organization that was operating throughout the southeast United States.
The award highlights exemplary work in civil rights investigations, FBI officials wrote in a news release.

The three-year investigation began in June of 2013, when an adult female victim was kidnapped from her Panama City Beach home by two unknown males. The victim later escaped her captors and alerted law enforcement in Mississippi. Borghini identified, located, and arrested one of the captors, Jacobo Feliciano-Fransisco, and determined he was a member of a human trafficking organization.
The victim had been targeted for her prior cooperation with law enforcement in a case that resulted in the arrest and deportation of 13 organization members.  Feliciano-Fransisco was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Still, Borghini continued his investigation and identified additional organization members who were actively operating brothels in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. As a result of SA Borghini’s efforts, the organization was dismantled following the arrests and convictions of an additional eight subjects for commercial sex trafficking, including five leaders of the organization.

Borghini is a 22-year veteran of the FBI, and is assigned to the FBI Panama City resident agency.  He has served residents of the Florida Panhandle for five years.

Julia Cafarella in 1991

 

Julia O'Leary Cafarella, daughter of Salvatore Cafarella.

She is a former Stewardess.

 

 

 

Here is Julia again, on a visit to Malden Massachusetts

with Jake and Rose Cafarella Cincotta.

Giuseppe and Vincenzo Cafarella

 Giuseppe, with the glasses in the cut-and-paste photo of

four military brothers?  This photo is him in front of the fruit shop in 1963.

He is the one with glasses, on the right.  His brother Vincenzo, (Julia's

Grandfather) is on the left.  I do not know the man in the middle.

Antonio Cafarella and some of his children from Livorno

 

 

Antonio(Antonino) Cafarella

who lived in Livorno with my

Great Aunt Carolina Cincotta Cafarella

and their children  after leaving the island.

Their children are pictured below and in other posts.

 

 

 

Gaetano Cafarella

 

 



 

Anerio Cafarella

 

Giovannina Cafarella

 

Rosina, Cafarella

 

Anerio with his wife Serafina and their daughter. 

 Patrick and I think this might be a Carabinieri sword

 and those pants from the uniform. 

 I would love to hear from someone

who could confirm that he was in the  Carabinieri.

 Salvatore in the doorway of his

 fruit shop in Essendon (Melbourne.)

 

 

Domenico Cafarella with his wife Anna,
 and their daughter Meri.  the other children
in this family were Paola, Laula, Antonio, and Cristina.


Antonio and Carolina's daughter Cristina(the nun) is pictured elsewhere