My father-in-law fought as a teenager in the Warsaw Uprising of 44’. He could never return to Poland with the Communist in charge so he came to America. The Poles truly do deserve a blessing for their country and people.
Hi snippy_about_it, if I remember correctly it was SAMWolf’s father, right? Someone posted on Freerepublic.com his photo from the time of Warsaw Uprising, right?
Greetings from Poland!
My Babci lost her brothers in a war of some kind-I’m not sure which one but it was way earlier than WWII. My grandfather came here first from Russia and once he had a job, he sent for her. She was around 17 or 18 when she came here. Her sister stayed in Poland-in Warsaw and for the rest of her life (till she was 90), she sent her sister money every month. Most of it she got-but a lot of mail went undelivered and/or stolen. Piles of mail would turn up in dumps etc.
But she would be HORRIFIED and dare I say-really ticked to see what is going on now. They came here to get away from this kind of stuff and to give their children and grandchildren a better life. As you said, people DIED fighting against this way of life.-Thank God she’s no longer around to see this. She was a Democrat too-had the portrait of JFK next to the Pope’s pic on the wall in her never used tiny front parlor..she was a great lady. (and made THE best Kapusta!)