Hi, thank you for posting this interesting story, it's good to know they actually remember us
and I know they are trying to be nice to us but I found Pan Duda's speech a bit bombastic
but then I grew up totally surrounded by the survivors of Monte Cassino
who tended to have a more subdued and sad recollection of the event
plus all the friends and colleagues they left behind in the cemeteries
and naturally I tend to share their attitude for that reason
so this speech would seem a bit bombastic for us who grew up so close to this event.
Actually you don't really need to "imagine" the scenes described in Pan Duda's speech,
just look at the pictures in the "family album" of the Polish Second Corps, "Trail of Hope",
for graphic illustrations but then again I, like other "children of this regiment",
have the benefit of all the remembered narrations of our fathers (and for some, their mothers)?
about these pictures:- I just wish this book had been published 50 years ago!
It's also good to know that Pani Anders was also there,
how nice of her, a general's daughter, to occasionally remember the front-line troops, the children of whom we are!
Perhaps also, in the midst of using this event to do a bit of political posturing in Poland's dealings with the EU leadership Pan Duda, Pani Anders, and of course Pan Kaczynski and Pani Szyd?o et al might also remember that the Polish soldiers of Monte Cassino are survived by a lot of adult children who really would like some help to trace our missing kinfolk left behind in the USSR in 1942 and elsewhere and to re-establish our Polish citizenship without having to spend a "bundle" doing it, and it would also be so helpful if they could educate the mainland Polish public about us and discourage visiting Polish bumpkins from denying that we are actually Polish but only merely foreigners of distant Polish ancestry, which can be so very obnoxious to someone who has so many soldiers of the Second Republic in her ancestry.
Cheers on this balmy and lazy Sunday afternoon in Toronto, Canada!
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