Poland will Survive this day

Townhall ^ | 4/10/2010 | W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

[Saije]

We Americans far too-often take our staunchest allies for granted, forgetting that we are not the only ones who – over the past 200-plus years of our relatively short existence – have been the standard bearers of freedom and democracy throughout the world.

Multiple nations and members of those nations’ worldwide diasporas have had a hand in it. And no nation on earth has struggled, suffered, and sacrificed more (yet survived) for the cause of freedom worldwide – nor been a better friend to America – than Poland.

Which is why this morning’s tragic plane crash in Russia – killing Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski...and at least 95 others (including Ryszard Kaczorowski, Poland's exiled president during the decades of Communism, and many top Polish military and civilian officials) – grieves us all as Americans.

After all, Poland has been with us from the beginning, literally in the saddle, fighting and dying with us from Savannah to Afghanistan.

In fact, one would be hard-pressed to drive across the North American continent today and not see a monument, street, or some sort of namesake commemoration for Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, a general-officer in George Washington’s army during the American Revolution. Pulaski was killed leading a charge against British forces in the Battle of Savannah. He is today widely considered to be “the father of American cavalry.”

Then we have Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, another hero of our revolution, said to be “the best engineer” in Washington’s army. Indeed, he designed plans for West Point.

And though often taking a back seat to the great battles of Europe and the Pacific during World War II, some of the most amazingly heroic resistance battles in all of history were waged by Polish fighters against Nazi occupation, as Poles say, “For our freedom and yours!”

[Guenevere]

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[constitutiongirl]

Thanks for posting this.

[Dumb_Ox]

The first folks to begin political correctness...Thanks alot. Sheesh!!! Cry babies.

As a matter of fact, many of the earliest ethnic anti-defamation groups were Jewish. I do wonder if Hollywood's anti-Polish sentiments drew some energy from traditional tensions between Poles and Jews. Far too many people think the Poles ran the Nazi camps just because the Nazis set up their death works in defeated Poland.