Alfredo Cipaloto

Much has been made about the Japanese internment camps here in the United States during WWII. What is often forgotten are the Germans and Italians which were similarly interned. Fort Missoula 'hosted' over one hundred Italians during the war, including Alfredo Cipaloto. I had the honor of singing with Alfredo over the past few years in a community men's chorus which he founded some 60 years ago.

A couple of weeks ago, he did what I thought impossible. He got me into a church, in a suit, and singing. His funeral that week filled the church with over 400 people. An amazing tribute to an amazing man. Click on this link to read about Alfredo and then click the link to the top right to see him in the Broadway Market which he ran up until his late eighties. The Greatest Generation indeed.