Tina Montinaro is keen not to be called "the widow" of Antonio Montinaro, because she talks to her husband every day. Since that May 23, 1992, from the 500 kilos of TNT that took away Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo, Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo and Vito Schifani.

Antonio was just 29 years old and Tina had been married for 5 years. Two sons, Gaetano and Giovanni.

31 years have passed and since then Tina is the living "memory" of those years, of what happened then. He travels the length and breadth of Italy, he goes to schools. She tells, remembers and often her "escort" is the car, the Quarto Savona Quindici in which her husband died.

In the book entitled "You have done nothing to us", she reports the words that her husband had said in an interview a few days before May 23 and that are emblematic of the man: "I see a man at very high risk, a man who has given many the opportunity to believe in the future. I wouldn't do that if I didn't have the utmost confidence in him. I put my life at risk, for him, probably because he is one of the few I believe in and that allows me to feel good about myself. I escort him because I'm sure he's honest. If a character decides to fight a phenomenon like the mafia and does not have the help of society, it is normal that you have to escort him. But if someone decides to kill him, he does it regardless of how many men he has in escort. Perhaps I will be presumptuous, but I think that, currently, in an attack on "man", we are able to protect him. We could not do the same with a car bomb, there we are lost, defeated".

Prophetic words.

But who was Antonio? And what does the Quarto Savona Quindici represent for Tina? You replied to Rainews.it

For Tina it has been crucial in these years to ensure that the memory of those years is not lost. She says "For us adults this dark page of Italian and Sicilian history represents a part of our lives, an event that we remember and that has marked and changed us. It is not the same for the new generations. For a twenty-year-old boy, the massacre of Capaci is a page of history, an event of the past, of which he has no living memory. For a ten-year-old child it represents an even more distant event, whose knowledge depends on the goodwill and commitment of teachers and us adults. If we want this memory to leave a mark even on the youngest, we cannot limit ourselves to organizing cosmetic events in which young people and children take part as well as they could participate in a school lesson. We need everyone's active contribution, we need a memory that is full of emotions that those who lived those moments can be the first to transmit".

But Tina, behind a granite appearance, forged by an event that has upset an entire country, is a woman of great emotions and passions. You can feel it in his voice, in his eyes, in his smile. And her face changes when she speaks of her sons Gaetano and Giovanni "two men" that she raised by acting as father and mother even if she took a lot of time from them just to be "memory" of those years. A tiring journey in these three decades and Giovanni, the youngest, often says "We are not orphans of father but also of mother". Even if they are very proud of their mother.

Tina has never forgotten Antonio "He has always been with me for 31 years".