Friday, February 5, 2021
A Polish & American Hero Born on February 4
Thaddeus Kosciuszko is a Polish hero that many Americans have heard of at least those of us who grew up in cities with a large amount of Polish immigrants. Grand Rapids has a Kosciuszko Hall -- near Sacred Heart Church where my grandfather married his first wife. It is one of the many halls started in Grand Rapids to support the immigrants in different ways. Detroit has a statue of him and also of Casmir Pulaski. Right now in the United States many questions are coming up about statues and if the people commemorated are really heros. I suspect there will be no question about the Polish ones in Detroit.
Koscisuzko was born in 1746. He came to America in 1776 and used his engineering skills to help the colonies in their desire for independence. He went back to Poland and was a national hero of the 1794 insurrection.
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