Skimming the obits today, I was suddenly struck by the thought that a feather-weight bully like Donald Trump should be put in a position to care for and improve a nation in which Leokadia Z. Rowinski, 93, (and those like her) once lived. This was a person of substance, like so many others ... a person with, as my father used to say, "sand." Here's just the intro to the obit that calls so utterly for respect:
Leokadia Z. Rowinski
The rest of the obit is quiet as perhaps Mrs. Rowinski was ... family, work, death ... a person who was a substantive person. No doubt she could have pissy moments, but I trust her where she puts her feet on the floor.She was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Kazimierz and Zofia (Kunert) Grzeslak. In 1939, after the Nazis occupied Poland, Leokadia secretly continued her education even though this was a crime punishable by death. She joined the Polish Home Army and as a member of the Underground Resistance received intensive training as a war nurse and later as a communication technician, acquiring knowledge of radio, field telephone, map reading and use of firearms. Captured after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, she spent six months in three German POW camps. The last of these, Oberlangen, was liberated in April of 1945 by the First Polish Armored Division under British command.
That a man like Donald Trump might presume even to praise her is somehow off-key ... and possibly revolting. What a difference between "grasp" and "give."
Leokadia Z. Rowinski
Leokadia Z. Rowinski
Leokadia Z. Rowinski
I do not and may not necessarily agree because of the timeless debate of ethnicity. Donald and Ivanka came from German ancestries. Today Germany is in NATO and EU, we don't go around labelling Germans as Fascists or Nazis any more even though as war junkies we know well how German youths behave. Within Central Europe alone, racism is a very complicated topic.
ReplyDeleteWhile the British are British and can at best English, Welsh, North Ireland and Scottish notwithstanding Canadians, Aussies and New Zealanders, the situation in Central Europe is as good or as bad as the United States of America. Trump can potentially handle something that Clinton misses out on, and it is not just cash and money which we all love very much. I have never heard of Trump regarding himself as a Pole this far, but let us say that we look closer at Kalinigrad, in the coming years without Trump it can be very fuzzy what is in an Estonian, a Latvian, a Belarussian, a Ukrainian, a Lithuanian, a Slovakian, a Pole, a Serbian, a Czech, a Serb, a Slav, a Hungarian, and the list goes on.
Rongxiang, LIN
I doubt ancestry has much to do with who trump is.
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