Thank you for reading and responding. It has become an important part of how I view myself.

Even the word itself.

The original Fasci Siciliani were poor peasants protesting for basic human, labor, and civil rights. Mussolini co-opted the word in order to ride into power on a populist wave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasci_Siciliani

My Great Great Grandfather was one of the 18 killed in the Marineo massacre of Jan 3 1894. He didn’t want to be a martyr for the cause. His widow managed to escape further persecution with their children to the tenements of lower Manhattan.

My Grandfather was named after him, and I was named after my grandfather.

And no mention of Italy?

That was a given when he kept boxes of top secret material in his bathroom.