Hank Ogrodnik

I've read Halik Kochanski's "The Eagle Unbowed" and found it very interesting from a personal prospective. My father was born in Niagara Fall NY in 1917 and then taken back to Poland in the 1921 with his family. He later left Poland in 1936, leaving his younger brother, who later was drafted into the Polish military in 1939, along with the rest of his family. My father later, in 1940, served in the US Military for 4 years during WWII in the south Pacific. His younger brother was sent to Germany as slave labor were he worked from 1939 to the spring of 1945. I also served in the US Military and my last assignment brought me to Drawsko Pomorskie Poland in which I served in one of the first US- Polish joint NATO exercises on Polish territory. These personal stories, as Halik brings out, are just a small tidbit of stories that have come to light of the diaspora of Polish migration due to war and starvation during the last few centuries in central Europe. I find this subject material so interesting because it is so personal and yet under researched especially in the west. Thank you Dr. Kochanski for a well documented and well written piece of history brought to light.