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Washington, Mar 2, 2009 -

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced H.J.Res. 26, which would grant honorary posthumous citizenship to General Casimir Pulaski of Poland who fought and died in the American Revolution.  The bill was introduced today in honor of Illinois’ Casimir Pulaski Day which is celebrated on the first Monday in March.

General Pulaski, a dedicated freedom fighter and credited as the father of the American cavalry, famously said, “I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it.”  After fighting bravely at Brandywine and ejecting the British occupiers from Charleston, General Pulaski was mortally wounded in Savannah, Georgia and was taken aboard the American ship USS Wasp, where he died at sea on October 11, 1779.

Congress has previously granted honorary U.S. citizenship five times.  Most recently to the Marquis de Lafayette in 2002.  Lafayette was a Frenchman who, like Pulaski, fought courageously on the side of America during the Revolutionary War.

Kucinich introduced this bipartisan legislation, H.J.Res 26, with the support of 22 original cosponsors.

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