We mention 1 of the characters for which the service of the country and the conflict for independency were the most crucial values. This is General Marian Kukiel – a soldier, historian and large patriot – said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish at the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the officer's birth. “He was programmed to service his country,” added the chief.
The celebrations of General Marian Kukiel's 140th birthday were held on Saturday in the city park in his hometown – Dąbowie Tarnowska (Norpolskie province). Their guest was Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish. The military honorary assistance was presented by the garrison of Kraków. After the memorial appeal, a technological seminar was held on the military and political activities of the general, as well as a demonstration of military equipment and a patriotic picnic.
– In Dąbrowa Tarnowska we remember 1 of the characters for which the service of the country and the fight for independency were the most crucial values. This is General Marian Kukiel – a soldier, historian and large patriot – said Deputy Prime Minister. Thank you very much, especially the local community, that he cares about the preservation in the memory of Poles of this hero of the time of the fight for independence," he added.
According to the head of the MON, the biography of the gene. Kukiela is an example of how to combine service to the homeland with individual development, in this case with a technological career. “These 2 ways of full sacrifice for the homeland, but besides building its size with education, education, experience are possible,” Kosiniak-Kamish said.
– respect for the land from which you are from, for the land from which you come, the memory of it, is something that we bring out of the house. General Marian Kukiel grew from specified a house. From a home where God, honor, homeland were commandments, not words. They were values, not passwords. It was something that got distant and something that remained for a life – the Deputy Prime Minister said. – As the friends at General Kukiel's school mentioned, he was already programmed from the very beginning to service his country," he added.
Marian Kukiel a prominent military historian, independency and political activist. A associate in the fight for independence, co-founder of the Action Combat Union and associate of the firearm Union. He fought in the Polish Legions, participated in the Polish-bolshevik War. After the May overturn, he moved on to the reserve and took on discipline – he was a prof. at the Jagiellonian University and manager of the Czartoryski Museum. Author of many works on military history, including “War of 1812” and “Archivement of Military past in Poland”. During planet War II on emigration – Commander of 1st Polish Corps in Scotland, Minister of National Defence in the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile. After the war he co-founded the Sikorski Institute in London. Decorated, among others, by Virtuti Militari and the Legion of Honor. He died in 1973 in Britain.
