Vivid images from war linger for Polish patriot.What Kazinierz Gorka remembers most about the German invasion of his Polish homeland was the heat. He was four years old. Eight German soldiers arrived, riding horses. "I remember," said Gorka. "I had never seen a soldier before." "It was very hot, and they wanted water for the horses." "My father got water for them, carrying the buckets like this," he gestured, with his arms spread wide. The soldiers were suspicious. They would not let their horses drink until Gorka's father had drunk from each bucket A reserved amount of memory that holds a single item or multiple items of data. Bucket is somewhat synonymous to "buffer," although buffers are usually memory locations for incoming data records, while buckets tend to be smaller holding areas for calculations. See hash table, buffer and variable. . "My father got down on one knee, at each of the eight buckets, to drink from them," said Gorka, demonstrating again. Gorka would be 10 before all German forces had finally left his homeland. Now, years later, Gorka muses on his memory of the heat and the thirsty thirst·y adj. thirst·i·er, thirst·i·est 1. Desiring to drink. 2. Arid; parched: thirsty fields. 3. Craving something: thirsty for news. horses and the German soldiers riding them. As he thinks, he remains hard at work, setting up the public address system for Polish Armed Services The Constitution authorizes Congress to raise, support, and regulate armed services for the national defense. The President of the United States is commander in chief of all the branches of the services and has ultimate control over most military matters. Day on the broad stairs at the Shrine shrine: see pilgrim. of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in doylestown, Pa. "This is the 18th year I have set up for Armed Services Day," said Gorka. Now he lives in nearby Plymouth Meeting, Pa. When he came to this country, he stayed five months in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and then came to the lush country and rolling hills Rolling hills are like a mountain chain, only a "hill chain" of hills that roll on and on continually. You will often find them in between plains and mountains, near major rivers, or randomly anywhere. The only places without rolling hills are deserts and flood plains. of southeastern Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia. Today, Gorka's memories are rich as Polish veterans in a succession of conflicts proudly walk by. |
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