To the Polish flist members

[blamebrampton]

I am so sorry. What a horrible thing to happen. It's as though the evil of 70 years ago is still echoing. There aren't any helpful words, only sorrow for those who die in public service and faith in your country's ability to recover from the hardest of blows. But surely you're due a century or two off now?

Comments

[alex-s9.livejournal.com]

Actually, if your read Polish history, we haven't got a century off since circa 1750s. But this plane crash was one of the most tragic events ever.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Our news covered the story for ten minutes tonight, I think seeing the President's brother trying to be stoic was the hardest thing of all.

And very sadly, I did know that. I remember sitting with a group of my Eastern and Northern European friends (mostly émigrés) while they played 'My country has had it worse than yours' and in the end the Estonian and the Pole tied, because while the Estonians had been invaded more often, the Poles had had more awful incursions.

Ironically, the conversation ended with us all agreeing that things were looking immensely better for all of Europe at long last. It was in 1990. Little did we know.