Can you imagine picking up a newspaper or turning on the television and learning that your president, your chief of staff of army, navy, and air command, your national heroine, and nearly a hundred of your nation's best leaders had died in a crash? A crash that could have been prevented if the pilot had followed instructions not to land in a fog? A crash of a plane bound to a small territorial plot commemorating a massacre of your nation's finest that took place 70 years before? How very sad. My heart goes out to the Polish nation, to the fathers and mothers, to the children who will forever remember where they were when they learned of this... It will survive, Poland... but what a heart-staggering blow, no matter what a person's political belief. May God comfort them all.
Can you imagine picking up a newspaper or turning on the television and learning that your president, your chief of staff of army, navy, and air command, your national heroine, and nearly a hundred of your nation's best leaders had died in a crash? A crash that could have been prevented if the pilot had followed instructions not to land in a fog? A crash of a plane bound to a small territorial plot commemorating a massacre of your nation's finest that took place 70 years before? How very sad. My heart goes out to the Polish nation, to the fathers and mothers, to the children who will forever remember where they were when they learned of this... It will survive, Poland... but what a heart-staggering blow, no matter what a person's political belief. May God comfort them all.
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What a shock it must be to the people of Poland.
Becky K.
lesson for me: sometimes we have to trust someone other than ourselves who can see more clearly from their vantage point.