Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to the persevering and prescient life of American General Edward L. Rowny, who passed away on December 18 of last year at the age of 100. Proud of his Polish-American heritage, he attained a century of life in the Polish tradition of Sto lat, dear general. This valiant soul served our Nation under five Presidents, of both parties. He served under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and rose to be a shining general in his own right, a brave guardian of liberty through courage, sacrifice, expertise, and wisdom. General Rowny was born the son of a Polish immigrant and a Polish- American mother on April 3, 1917. A West Point graduate, he served in World War II and led a battalion with the 92nd Army Infantry Division, driving up the west coast of Italy. He remained a dogged ally of then-occupied Poland and the Polish people and advanced the return of the remains of Ignacy Jan Paderewski to Poland in 1992 after the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 years earlier. He later founded the Rowny Paderewski Scholarship Fund to bring Polish students to the United States to study American democracy. He continued to raise funds for it until his dying day. General Rowny lived to see solidarity bring freedom to Poland and helped usher Poland into the NATO security alliance. He was an esteemed arms control adviser under every President from Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush.…”