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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF KOSCIUSZKO AT WEST POINT INVITES YOU TO RESERVE THE DATES OF MAY 1-2, 2015 FOR ITS ANNUAL PROGRAM: 12th Annual Tadeusz Kosciuszko Conference to be held on Friday, May 1, 2015 at the Thayer Hotel, 674 Thayer Road, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 13th Anniversary Year of the Founding of the American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point102nd Anniversary Year of the Kosciuszko Statue that was added in 1913 to the Original Kosciuszko Monument of 1828187th Anniversary Year of the Dedication of the Kosciuszko Monument by the United States Military Academy 187th Anniversary Year of the United States Military Academy's 1st Annual National Tadeusz Kosciuszko Observance to be held on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at the Kosciuszko Monument Kosciuszko Conference Schedule at the Thayer Hotel, Eisenhower Room (Friday, May 1, 2015): 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Registration 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Welcome and Overview (Dean Anthony J. Bajdek, President)10:15 - 05:30 p.m. Conference: *FOR YOUR FREEDOM AND OURS --- Poland and Poles during World War II: suppressed Allied heroes from Poland fighting and surviving to the ends of the earth, including the battle of Britain, the Normandy invasion, and the battle of Berlin; their deportation by the Soviet Union to Siberia; and exodus from Siberia via Iran and Iraq to Palestine for the invasion of Italy, their families sent to the safety of East Africa; the Italian campaign; Poland's sustaining the War's biggest underground fighting resistance to Nazi German and Soviet Russian brutality and atrocities; and the unsympathetic portrayal by Hollywood's film industry of Poland's struggle to survive extinction.* Conference Featured Participants: Panelist: Mieczyslaw B. B. Biskupski, Ph.D., New Britain, CT, Professor of History and Blejwas Chair of Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State UniversityPanelist: Michael Alfred Peszke, M.D., Wakefield, RI, Independent Historian, Author, Psychiatrist, and Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Storrs, CTPanelist: James S. Pula, Ph.D., Chesterton, IN, Kosciuszko Biographer, Professor of History, Purdue University, Westville, INPanelist: Wincenty Knapczyk, Trumbull, CT, Veteran, Polish 2nd Corps of World War II, and National Commander, Polish Army Veterans Association of AmericaPanelist: Julian E. Kulski, Ph.D., Washington, DC, Architect, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, teen-age member of Poland's Home Army during WWII and combatant in the Warsaw Uprising of August-September 1944, authorPanelist: Andrew Nagorski, New York, NY, Author, editor, journalist, foreign correspondent, and bureau chief for Newsweek in Berlin, Bonn, Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, and Warsaw, former Vice President and Director of Public Policy for the EastWest Instutute, current Chairman of the Board, the Polish-American Freedom FoundationModerator: Anthony J. Bajdek, Hudson, NH, Associate Dean (ret.) and Senior Lecturer in History, Northeastern University, Boston, MAModerator: Stephen N. Olejasz, Wheeling, WV, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), and Former Assistant Professor of History, USMA, West Point, NY Kosciuszko Day Observance (Saturday, May 2, 2015)09:45 a.m. Annual Kosciuszko Memorial Mass in the Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity, USMA, West Point, NY11:30 a.m. USMA Cadet Review on The Plain (i.e., parade ground)12:30 p.m. Annual Kosciuszko Observance at the Kosciuszko Monument, USMA, West Point, NY02:00 p.m. Annual Kosciuszko Day Memorial Luncheon, George Washington Room, Thayer Hotel, 674 Thayer Road, USMA, West Point, NY (By prepaid reservation only. See below). Host, AAFKWP President Anthony J. Bajdek, and Speakers from the Embassy of Poland and the Embassy of Lithuania, along with a presentation by a Cadet member of the Kosciuszko Squadron of West Point. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Questions? Call Frances X. Gates at (718) 852-6812 or Cynthia J. Bajdek at (603) 718-1351