In a short message, Natércia Salgueiro Maia remembers the man who was forever linked to the history of the 25th of April, on the blog “Amigos do Convento”, which aims to “help preserve and enhance our cultural heritage, our deepest collective memory, that which greatly defines us as a people, constitutes the core of what animates us and drives us to act”.
The widow begins by calling him by his first name “Fernando”, a name that we have become accustomed to forgetting and replacing with surnames Salgueiro Maia.
He then assures that 50 years later the April captain’s dream is “coming true”: “Today’s Portugal is better, different problems are emerging but all of us, with the freedom that you helped to achieve, will, as you always did, find solutions “.
And ends by thanking: “Thank you for everything!”
In a statement, the blog says that this message was articulated with the Salgueiro Maia Association, from Santarém. According to Pedro Campos, responsible for the blog, the objective was “to remember the Captain of April in a different and humble way, but full of meaning”. “As, in fact, Salgueiro Maia’s life was”, according to Luís Vaz de Carvalho, Secretary of the Board of
Salgueiro Maia Association.
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