1 posted on
03/06/2006 9:19:05 AM PST by
lizol
To: lizol; Pharmboy
"I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it," Pulaski wrote in his first letter to George Washington.
2 posted on
03/06/2006 9:22:37 AM PST by
Cagey
(You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. ~Chris Rock)
To: lizol
Didn't he build the Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey?
3 posted on
03/06/2006 9:24:17 AM PST by
jalisco555
("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
To: lizol
"A huge monument stands in Savannah, another in Washington..."
There's a small park named for him and a statue in Northampton, MA and Boston too.
Just don't let the hippies know he's a war hero, or they'll want to take the statue down and rename the park.
And probably hold a mock trial to find him a war criminal if they get half a chance.
4 posted on
03/06/2006 9:27:04 AM PST by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: lizol
Add the towns of Pulaski, Wisconsin and Pulaski, Indiana. Also Casimir Pulaski Senior High School in Milwaukee. probably 3/4 of the south side of Milwaukee is Polish. I went to school with lots of kids with 10 or more letter last names with no vowels.
8 posted on
03/06/2006 10:29:21 AM PST by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: lizol
If Martin Luther King Jr., why not Pulaski?
9 posted on
03/06/2006 10:32:10 AM PST by
pankot
To: lizol
Just what did Casimir Pulaski do?Everybody in Georgia knows.
We have a really cool fort named for him too!
10 posted on
03/06/2006 10:37:13 AM PST by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken.)
To: lizol
Za wolnosc wasza i nasza!!! (For Your Freedom and Ours)
13 posted on
03/06/2006 10:49:31 AM PST by
dfwgator
To: lizol; Cagey; All
When the RevWar was in its early stages, many Europeans came here claiming to be Generals and Colonels, etc., and well-versed in war. Most of them were phonies of the first order, and General Washington and his staff were very unimpressed with this crop. There were a few that stood out and earned The General's trust and performed heroicly in battle. Pulaki was one, his countryman Kosciuszko was another, the Prussian von Steuben a third, and, of course, the Marquis de Lafayette the fourth.
15 posted on
03/06/2006 6:53:34 PM PST by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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