Posted on 03/07/2016 10:19:59 AM PST by EveningStar
Casimir Pulaski Day is a holiday observed in Chicago, Illinois on the first Monday of every March in memory of Casimir Pulaski (March 6, 1745 – October 11, 1779), a Revolutionary War cavalry officer born in Poland as Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski. He is praised for his contributions to the U.S. military in the American Revolution and known as "the father of the American cavalry".
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If you live on the North Side, you wish each other ‘Happy Casimir Crawford Day.’
He must have made quite an impression, because there are Pulaski Counties all over the midwest.
Thanks for this history lesson. I had never heard of him before today. He does deserve recognition and honor.
Perhaps as a theme song for Mr. Pulaski’s story, one could use the song “Kasmir” by Led Zeppelin. Mainly because it’s a powerful song that is somewhat like a dirge, or an ongoing march. Yes, I understand, that song has no ethnic connection to Poland.
Poles are great in their home country; They move here to Chicago and become flaming liberals.
“Thanks for this history lesson. I had never heard of him before today. He does deserve recognition and honor.”
I attended junior high and high school in Illinois in the 80s, and it was a statewide holiday back then. The entire state used to get the day off from school, etc. It was eliminated as a mandatory statewide holiday a number of years ago, but certain districts and areas of the state (heavily Polish) still observe it.
Apparently he’s one of 8 people who was granted honorary American citizenship.
Simply because Crawford turns into Pulaski, headed from South to North!
Yet, LedZep’s “Kashmir” is about a Himalayan sovereignty rather that a Am-Revolutionary hero.
And, BTW, Kevin Gilbert’s rendition of “Kashmir” is ^spot-on^! UToob it.
Also, Pulaski Hwy (US12) in SW Michigan comes to mind.
I believe it is Pulaski Hwy from the Indiana-Michigan border through Coldwater, where it once again, becomes US12 (or...as we know it... Old-12).
I was on the USS Casimir Pulaski SSBN 633
Thanks. I never understood the lyrics, as sung by Robert Plant. I heard his tenor yells and his wailings, but couldn’t make out any words. He was drowned out by the music’s unrelenting bass and treble. I heard R. Plant lost sleep , and a few friends while stressing over exactly how to write those lyrics.
The Pole that led an extraordinary life here and in Europe was Thaddeus Kosciusko.
Similarly, the Pulaski Skyway in NJ is named for another European expat who aided the young country in its war for independence: Baron Stanislaw von Skyway.
Sto Lat!
But Kościuszko is to hard to pronounce or spell. Pulaski is so much easier. Kosciuszko was an amazing man. Founder of West Point, hero of three revolutions. When he died, he left his estates to free educate black slaves including those owned by his good friend Jefferson.
Thanks EveningStar!
He hasn’t been forgotten here in Savannah, Ga either.
As he died here, we have Ft. Pulaski, Pulaski school, a Pulaski monument, and, some speculate, his body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski
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