Two Worlds

My host, Rev. Sister Stephanie, insisted strongly yesterday, while doing the tour of downtown Chicago, on seeing the monument of one of the illustrious sons of Poland - Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko. So did I. The time I spent at the foot of the monument brought an abundance of memories of people and places...

Warsaw Uprising

Tomorrow, on August 1, is the 66th Anniversary of the day on which Warsaw Uprising begun. Please, take note of this tragic struggle of Polish Resistance movement in the capital city of Poland, occupied by German forces, with Russian and Polish communist armies standing idle and watching insurgents bleeding out and crushed by the might of German occupiers...Warsaw could have been one of the first European capitals liberated; however, various military and political miscalculations, as well as global politics — played among Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) — turned the dice against it.