Wiadomości z USA/News from the United States.
CHICAGO: Amerykańsko-Polska Rada Doradcza organizuje Polsko-Amerykańską Konferencję w Wardman Park Marriott, w Waszyngtonie, w sobotę, 29 września, 2012 roku.
Organization recognizes Quigley for leadership on Simpson-Bowles style budget
WASHINGTON – Today, the Concord Coalition will award U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) with the Paul E. Tsongas Economic Patriot Award for his efforts to push a bipartisan deficit reduction plan earlier this year.
As a historical memento to be preserved at the Pilsudski Institute of America, the Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress recently donated a section of the white and red bunting that decorated the speaker’s platform during a 1985 protest demonstration the Downstate Division organized and led in New York City. The demonstration supported Lech Walesa and the striking workers of Poland’s SOLIDARITY free trade union and was aimed at General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s Communist leader, at the time he came to visit the United Nations.
Ceremony Commemorating Millions of Victims of German and Russian Totalitarianism,
the Genocide and Systematic Extermination of the Polish Nation that took place
after German-Russian Joint Attack on Poland in September of 1939.
Polish Army Veteran Association
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Polish American Congress
Events happening as part of Sept. 11 anniversary
By The Associated Press
The families of those who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, elected officials and other public figures will mark the 11th anniversary of the attacks on Tuesday. Some of the events:
Newly released army documents prove that two American POWs wrote encoded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing to Soviet guilt for the 1940 massacre
Government cover up began during WWII when the U.S. needed the Soviets to defeat Germany and Japan.
After decades of denial, Soviets confessed to the massacre in 1990
BUFFALO, N.Y. — In honor of Veteran’s Day and the men and women who have served our country, the Polish American Journal is giving away –through the generosity of the newspaper’s patrons — over $1000 in cash and prizes to high school students who submit an essay on the topic: “Why I Think the United States Postal Service Should Issue a Stamp Commemorating Lt. Col. Matthew Urban.
Full transcript of Mitt Romney’s speech at Republican National Convention 2012
Here is the full transcript of the speech that presidential candidate Mitt Romney prepared to deliver tonight at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where he accepted his party’s nomination to thunderous applause:
A majority of Americans do not think the war in Afghanistan has reduced the threat of terrorism. However, this does not lead Americans to want to withdraw immediately, nor to persist indefinitely in the effort. Majorities express comfort with President Obama’s plan to gradually withdraw U.S. troops between now and the end of 2014. These are some of the findings in a newly updated digest of U.S. polls on violent conflict.