Source post #2

A heart-tugging reference I will be using in my project is this article by the Wall Street Journal. Perhaps one of the saddest articles I have read, it talks about Wojciech Seweryn, whose father was one of the 20,000+ men executed at Katyn. It reads that he spent his free time bringing attention to the Katyn massacre, and built a monument of the Virgin Mary cradling an adult with a bullet through his head. What makes this story so depressing is that Wojciech bought "a navy-blue suit, two white shirts and a blue one, new shoes and so many socks his wife, Maria, laughed at him" upon the invitation to commemorate Katyn's 70th anniversary with top-ranked Polish government officials, including former Polish President Kaczynski. He was so incredibly excited for the ceremony, and worried that his new suit may wrinkle on the flight. In a sick twist of fate, he died in the same area his father did. To quote the article, "Katyn consumed [him]."