Casimir Pulaski became a citizen yesterday after President Obama signed a bill being pushed by Dennis Kucinich making Pulaski a U.S. Citizen, 230 years after his death. Pulaski was a Polish noble who came to the U.S. to fight and die for the Revolution. Indiana’s own Pulaski County is named after him and, under IC 1-1-12.5, Indiana recognizes the first Monday in March as “Casimir Pulaski Day.”
Pulaski day was the best day off of school in Illinois when I was growing up. You had no idea why you were off and it wasn’t spent at family get-togehters!
Im proud that polish general who died 230 years ago recived a honorary citizenship. Im from Poland but I live in Ecuador, and we had a lot of good people that fight for liberty. One of them is Tadeusz Kosciuszko, famous in USA too. Good that USA remember them so good. Thanks to Dennis Kucinich for his effort to make this hapenned.
I grew up in Milwaukee, one of the most, if not THE most, Polish cities in the US. I went to high school on the “south side” and I’ll bet 2/3 of the kids in my high school had Polish surnames. I remember cutting school to go to Kosciuszko Park where President Lyndon Johnson was giving a speech. We got a detention for leaving campus.
South Bend, well -known home of the fighting Irish, still has a Polish community. I dont know how vibrant it is but there is a functional National Catholic church I stop by sometimes when my travel plan happen to work out. It’s a catholic church which doesnt recognize papal authority,but now is in communion with the Romans .The church is St Marys on Sample near Walnut.They no longer celebrate a Polish language mass. You have to go to Chicago for that.I don’t mean to ‘advertise’,but perhaps someone might be interested.