Happy Pulaski Day!!!!!

[dfwgator]

Happy Pulaski Day to all our Polish-American Freepers.

[bmwcyle]

Get the perigees, get the beer, everybody dance.

[dead]

Somebody should name a skyway after this day.

[gorush]

They called from work wondering why I didn't come in today...idiots didn't even know about Polaski Day, can you beleive it?

[dts32041]

A daley mob holiday.

[dfwgator]

True, but hey, it's all we've got. The Irish have their day, let's have ours.

[Shortwave]

The Polish are a great people caught between two evil empires! Happy Pulaski day!

[conserv13]

Casimir Pulaski is well known in Baltimore - there is a highway named after him and also statues and monuments. He was a hero of the American Revolution.

[dts32041]

I know, but only in chicago is it a paid holiday, for city workers, thus a daley mob holiday.

[fishtank]

Dr. Katherine Pulaski

[Vasilli22]

It's Roman Polanski day??

[roostercashews]

Lois: "Stewie, why is that boy tied up?"

Stewie: "We're playing house......."

"Roman Polanski's house."

[hedgetrimmer]

In Paris Pulaski met Benjamin Franklin, who was recruiting volunteers to fight in America's War of Independence. Mindful that England had recommended that Poland be partitioned by her hostile neighbors in 1772, Pulaski enthusiastically responded to Franklin's plea for assistance. In his letter of introduction to Washington, Franklin wrote of Pulaski as "an officer famous throughout Europe for his bravery and conduct in defense of the liberties of his country against ... great invading powers".

While awaiting his formal appointment by Congress, Pulaski was invited by Washington to serve on his staff during the Battle of Brandywine in September, 1777. Pulaski's performance during this baptism of blood in America earned him a commission as Brigadier General of the entire American cavalry.

In 1779, Pulaski was ordered to join General Lincoln in the South to help recapture Savannah. After French General D'Estaing, leader in the attack on the southern capital, fell wounded, Pulaski is reported to have rushed forward to assume command and raise the soldiers' spirits by his example and courage, only to be mortally wounded himself. Pulaski was named the "Father of American Cavalry", and remains one of the well known figures of the American Revolutionary War. There is hardly a state in America without a county or town, street or square, monument or tablet, school or highway named in grateful memory of General Casimir Pulaski

[hedgetrimmer]

"I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it..."
--Count Casimir Pulaski

[Incorrigible]

[sassbox]

actually it's not the only Polish American holiday there is. Has anyone here ever heard of Dingus Day? I know it's celebrated in South Bend IN, but I was wondering if anyone else had heard of it, or if it is simply a local Polish-American tradition.

Pulaski Day is great. It isn't just a Daley mob holiday, the whole state of Illinois has the day off (although nowadays the Daley mob does run the whole state!) I grew up outside of Chicago and loved having the long weekend off from school, especially because it was so close to Presidents Day weekend and Spring Break. That was alot of vacation time in one month.

[sassbox]

very interesting. I see that viaduct from the train when I travel into NYC and had always wondered what it was.

[Incorrigible]

Be glad you don't have to drive on the Pulaski Skyway!!!!

My driver's education teacher must have been the bravest man I know taking us 16 year old students up on the Pulaski Skyway.  We'd get on in Jersey City and enter into the left lane... with no acceleration lane!  No room for error as there's no shoulders!  We'd get off in Harrison and turn right around and get back on!

I still drive it on occasion (I prefer the train to NYC myself) when I park in Jersey City or when visiting my parents and still think it's a crazy road to learn to drive on.

A testament to General Pulaski's bravery if ever there was one!

[noblejones]

Count Pulaski is still an important figure here in Savannah, thought of as highly as James Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony and Tomochichi, the tribal leader of the Yamacraw Indians who helped the new settlement get a foothold in the new world.

Article about the movement of Pulaski's remains from his monument in Monterey Square in 2003.

There is also Fort Pulaski, now a National Monument. Fort Pulaski was pummeled by the Union Army's new rifled canons early in the War of Northern Aggression and succumbed quickly.

Fort Pulaski info

[noblejones]

Another story of interset.