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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Even More Demotivators
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Back to Business
The Reunion was great, thanks to everybody for giving me a great four-day respite from my increasingly annoying daily grind, but now it's back to business. That being said here, after a slight delay, is the latest batch of Demotivators...bon apetite.
I wonder how he does on Road Rash.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Uprising stuff
1. Dr. Christopher Flizak (US Army CPT retired): He was the youngest enlisted soldier in GEN Anders' 2nd Polish Corps during WWII at 10 years old. On September 1st, 1939, he was happy because it was announced that school was canceled in their small Polish town on the eastern border with Russia. The Nazis had invaded and the whole town started digging antitank trenches. On September 17th, the town was captured by the invading Soviet army and his father, an officer in the border army unit, was captured. Somehow, his father got word to the family that they should flee to southeaster Poland, what is now Ukraine, to stay with an aunt an uncle. Not long after Dr. Flizak's mother, sister and he got to this town, the NKVD (KGB) deported them to Siberia. His mother and sister ended up in an African refugee camp for most of the war. Dr. Flizak went looking for his father. While starving in Siberia, he was enlisted at the age of 10 by the Polish 2nd Corps and traveled with them through Iraq, Palestine, Italy until the unit was decommissioned in Britain after the war. After that, he emigrated to the US where he enlisted in the Army, fought in the Korean War with the Rakkasahns where he earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple heart. We ran into each other on August 1st, just after W hour (1700) in Powazki Cemetery where Underground veterans gather every year to commemorate the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising.
2. Brian and Juliette: Brian (Bronek) is one of two surviving members of his platoon from the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. After the Uprising, he was captured by the Nazis and stuck in the Gestapo prison in Krakow. He escaped a few days before mass executions. Juliette survived Sept 11, 2001, where she was working in the north tower on the 82nd floor when it was hit on the 87th floor. She descended on her own to the 20th floor where she collapsed and was dragged out by two men the rest of the way. When the south tower collapsed, she nearly suffocated on the debris. They are both Americans who immigrated from Poland.
3. CPT Jerzy Bartnik "Magik": This man is the youngest recipient of Poland's Virtuti Militari, our equivalent of the Medal of Honor. He was 14 years old. He was a member of the "Parasol" Special Operations and Diversions Unit of the Underground Army during the Uprising. He was blonde, blue-eyed and spoke excellent German and conducted many missions behind enemy lines. His pseudonym "Magik" means Magician in Polish. He got it for surviving so many suicide missions. He made it through enemy lines to the Allies in Italy, for example, to bring intelligence. The Allies wanted to send him to London. He refused and returned back through Nazi territory to Warsaw to rejoin his unit. After the war, he emigrated to the US since he was wanted/unwelcome by governing Polish Communisits as a potential insurrectionary. He gave a speech in May at the US Ambassador's house about how thankful he was for America because she gave him the opportunity to have a family.
4. GEN Stefan Baluk (2nd from right): This man was an officer in Poland's famed unit, "Cichociemni" which means "Dark and Silent." These guys parachuted one by one into occupied Poland to help organize and reinforce Underground units. He made his way to Warsaw in order to help fight and lead in the Uprising. This is a picture of him cutting the ribbon of the new "Cichociemni" exhibit at Warsaw's Uprising Museum. With him is Poland's "GROM" commander, COL Jerzy Gut (3rd from right). GROM is Poland's current elite Special Ops unit that claims its heritage from the Cichociemni. Both he and the officer on the left are in their 90's now and fought in the Uprising in '44.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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