Posted on 10/09/2009 12:36:45 PM PDT by lizol
Pulaski, American citizen!
09.10.2009 09:27
The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution to grant Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski honorary posthumous American citizenship for his service during the American Revolutionary War.
The motion was put forward by Congressman Dennis Kucinich who described the Pole as ‘one of the great heroes of the American Revolution, a dedicated freedom fighter who deserves the highest recognition the United States can give to an immigrant war hero’. He added that he was honoured to join with other Members of Congress to help enshrine Pulaski’s memory with honorary posthumous citizenship.
Alex Storozynski, President of the Kosciuszko Foundation, told the Rzeczpospolita daily that this is a very prestigious distinction, which had been previously bestowed on only six foreign nationals, including General La Fayette, Winston Churchill, and Mother Theresa.
He added that few Americans are aware of the fact that it was Pulaski who saved the life of George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
Pulaski was a member of the Polish landed nobility. He fought against Russian domination in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and, having emigrated to North America, on the side of the colonists against the British in the American Revolution. He organized a legion of cavalry known as the Pulaski legion.
Mortally wounded in Savannah, he died on October 11, 1779, aged 34.
October 11 is celebrated as Pulaski Day in the United States
BTTT
A statue of Polish freedom fighter Casimir Pulaski has made its home at 13th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., in what is now known as D.C.'s Freedom Plaza.
The plaza, designed in 1980, is mainly a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, but the Polish military commander who fought and died for his adopted country is also honored by an equestrian statue on the square's eastern edge.
I thought you were talking about Polanski, and I had a good five minute rant ready for that.
He was a great American, no matter where he was originally from.
He's already got a County named after him in Virginia (and possibly a couple other States) and as far as I am concerned he is VERY deserving of this honor.
PS - Pulaski for President - 2012
Why would anyone want it anymore???
And how does Obama repay the incredible bravery of men like Pulaski and Kosciuszko, and the debt we owe to them in the founding of this country? Abandoning missile defense in Poland. It’s criminal.
}:-)4
“...resolution to grant Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski honorary posthumous American citizenship...”
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Hopefully, Obama’s immediate replacement.
Props to Kucinich for this.
There is a Mt. Pulaski in Illinois. It is a town of about 1700 population, not a physical feature. Its located on the flatlands just northeast of Springfield.
I agree with you. He was a good man.
I believe Ben Franklin recruited him while was in France. The US had a shortage of people with military experience at that time.
As a self-appointed representative of my fellow Americans of Polish descent, we hereby promise to tell 50% less Kucinich jokes.
Here in GA, too. There also an old brick fort on Tybee Island, near Savannah, Fort Pulaski.
Excuse me but, how does that apply to the law claiming you can’t have Polish and American citizenship? For what I know you can’t have both of them at the same time, I might be wrong though...
The first time I agreed with Dennis. Casamir Pulaski was a genuine American hero.
I grew up in Cleveland. Dennis started out normal and went lefter and lefter, past left field, into the stands and out of the stadium.
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