More scenes of tragedy were added. politician Smolenska announced in respective minutes after the crash that they all died. How did he know that? All the bodies have not yet been recovered, the wreckage has not been penetrated. The cockpit was raised a fewer days later. usually in specified situations, it is announced that persons whose bodies have not been recovered are considered missing. So no 1 could have survived.
Krakow Suburb. People spontaneously gather in front of the Presidential Palace. They put up candles. individual says you gotta cross them behind the chain in the palace.
- I'm sorry. But we cannot go in there – others say.
- I'm sorry. We don't, but the Boy Scouts can!
Scouts take over the candles served from the pavement and arrange a cross that will grow and become powerful for the following days. The prayer led by the priest concludes “God Something Poland”. How to sing now? “Bless...” or “let us return...”? After all, we have free Poland. The president we mourn was democratically elected by an independent nation. The government will now search to explain the causes of the disaster. We sing “The Fatherland free to bless the Lord!”
In the evening Castle Square is filled with streams of people heading towards the cathedral. Seeing long-lost faces gives the impression that Everybody's going. Holy Mass. Even then, the representatives of the power of the day and the people are together in St. John’s Cathedral. The concelebra is presided over by the cardinals. Nose. In the sermon, it resembles the presence of the president during the Friday Cross Road on the streets of Warsaw. Just a week earlier.
The next day, a coffin arrives on Sunday with the body of the late President. There are so many people in Krakowskie Przedmieście that I see only a fragment of coffin behind the window of a caravan.
Five years earlier, during the election, I put a cross in a box by the name of Lech Kaczyński, reasoning that at least so much of mine in this democracy. Now that thought is coming back, but so bitter. So much of mine; the sight of a coffin in the open, behind the window of a caravan. So much of mine.
The next days are a immense queue to the Presidential Palace. It starts with an astonishment: why are people standing in Castle Square? Is there something going on here? It turns out that it is simply a queue to the palace half a kilometer away, turns a thick, quadruple line around the Sigismund column.
A thick carpet of flowers has already grown in the courtyard of the palace.
On the ground floor, there are coffins in the lobby of the President's Chancellery. On the level at the catafalkas of the president and His Wives full honorary representatives of the Wadowice self-government.
On April 10, 2010, it was like a shortcut in history. The coffins presented in the Presidential Palace – the President, His Wives, employees of the Chancellery (Wladyslaw Stasiak, Katarzyna Doraczyńska, Barbara Maminińska, Paweł Wypych) make an impression of a movie from the future. They are people from our present, people whose coffins could stand here in many years and not necessarily all together. Their painstaking, 1 would like to say "pissistic", while at the same time full of tension work was replaced by a victim.
This abbreviation of modern past has respective more dimensions. It connects the victim of officers from planet War II to the beginning of the 21st century. And another. At 1 point, the last president in Refugees and the president of an independent Republic dies. II and III, or possibly the 4th Republic of Poland merge into 1 Poland. Katyn.
And another. The mystery of God's Mercy entrusted to the Polish nun and proclaimed in the planet by Saint John Paul II. On Christmas Eve John Paul II dies and, 5 years later, the president and 95 people named the elite of the nation, representatives of various public functions, tasks and thoughts die. On April 10th on Christmas Day of Mercy, the anniversary of the Katyn crime turns into a national Good Friday.
In 1 day, in 1 flash, any timeless abbreviation of history, a sign, and a prediction of the eternal. What's next?...
There is besides an chance to pay tribute to the president at the refugee, Ryszard Kaczorowski in Belvedere. This line is shorter, “just” 3 hours. And besides Maciej Plażyński at the Polish House.
On Saturday, April 17, the horse conduct carries the body of the presidential couple to the ceremony mass to the Warsaw Cathedral. Lech and Maria Kaczyński say goodbye to many Poles and blue sky.
It is worth noting due to the fact that it was then that the invisible “volcanic dust” prevented the heads of the states of the “free world” from coming to ceremony ceremonies. Not everyone. president Medvedev's plane arrived without hindrance. After a heroic journey, president Saakashvili arrived. The ceremony was besides attended by the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, who said that he was now alone in this Europe in the fight for the sovereignty of nations. no of the European leaders knew and understood past as president Lech Kaczyński did.
This death of 96 people on Christmas Eve of Mercy makes us think that God has not yet said the last word in this matter. Mercy, love is stronger than death. Mercy triumphs over judgment. The sacrifice offered at the feet of the Merciful Lord cannot be in vain. In his book Memory and Identity, the Holy Father John Paul II wrote that the limit of evil is yet the Mercy of God.
The feast of Divine Mercy following the day of tragedy says that evil has no last word. After the day of the triumph of evil comes the Day of Mercy. St. Faustina noted in Day The words of the Lord Jesus, that those who have become like him in suffering and contempt will besides be like him in glory.
On April 10, 2010, the plane fell apart, not only crashed. From this fall, we emergence laboriously 10 all month.
Iza S. - text and photos
