Happy Pulaski Day

[kotrenin]

All you Chicagoans know what I'm talking about. 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski_Day

http://www.eiu.edu/~insight/pulaski/pulaski.htm

[Treize69]

Yeah, lets celebrate a guy who alienated every officer who served under him with his own arrogance and incompetance, appointed his own countrymen who didn't speak a word of english to 'advise' the Continental cavalry officers, and who managed to get himself killed by riding his horse back in forth in front of a British cannon during the siege of Savannah.

Yay Pulaski!

[Ripsnort]

Yeah, lets celebrate a guy who alienated every officer who served under him with his own arrogance and incompetance, appointed his own countrymen who didn't speak a word of english to 'advise' the Continental cavalry officers, and who managed to get himself killed by riding his horse back in forth in front of a British cannon during the siege of Savannah.

Yay Pulaski!

[kotrenin]

But your are forgetting the most important part... in Chicago kids get a day off of school.

[Treize69]

But your are forgetting the most important part... in Chicago kids get a day off of school.

Just have them wear their underwear inside out and pray for snow, always worked for me.

[kotrenin]

 

[oakranger]

Well, you got to give the Polish people something to honer and celebrated for.

[Treize69]

Well, you got to give the Polish people something to honer and celebrated for.

There has to be someone better they could have picked. Probably just overlooked Tadeusz Kościuszko because his names so damn hard to spell. He's much more deserving than Pulaski.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko

I know its Wiki, but its a pretty good bio.

[kotrenin]

Yeah, we have a statue of him too,  but his name would kill our traffic reporters' tongues.   

Tadeusz Kościuszko statue, Chicago, IL, USA   Author: J. Crocker
 

I don't know enough on the subjects to make a good argument for either of these two.  I do know that supposedly Pulaski saved Washington at the  Battle of Brandywine, his first combat action with the Continental army.  Could that have made an impression on the people that make up our holidays?  Could be.

[Treize69]

Yeah, we have a statue of him too,  but his name would kill our traffic reporters' tongues.   

Its pronounced ko-shu-sko. Much easier to say than spell.

As for saving Washington at the Brandywine, it depends on which version of events you prefer. Other accounts say that Pulaski didn't really do anything that day, that the only real cavalry moves on the Continental side were made by his American subordinates (ie- Theodoric Bland of the First Light Dragoons and  Benjamin Tallmadge of the Second). Kościuszko at least made quite a name for himself as a combat engineer and advisor- he designed the works that led to the American victory at Saratoga and had a large part in the design of posts like West Point.

[PFactorDave]

All you Chicagoans know what I'm talking about. 

Typical Chicagoan...  Totally ignores the fact that it is the State of Illinois and not the State of Chicago.

[Maverick]

Chicago. Is that the place that has the silent "t" just before the cago? 




 

[trax1]

You know all my time in school I never had any idea who this guy was, all I cared about was we usually got a 4 day weekend, getting Monday off for him & they usually had some kinda teachers conference the Friday before.

[saggs]

I have no idea what your talking about.  

Having worked on USFS trail crews, when someone says Pulaski I think of:



and the kid I worked with who laid his shin open with one.

I thought maybe there was a holiday to celebrate this wonderful tool that I did not know about.

[Penguin]

There has to be someone better they could have picked. Probably just overlooked Tadeusz Kościuszko because his names so damn hard to spell. He's much more deserving than Pulaski.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko

I know its Wiki, but its a pretty good bio.

Ktos pamienta Kosciuszka, nie zle...
(Someone remembers Kosciusko, not bad...)

-Penguin