03. 140 years of memory

Great-great-grandfather Merian Cooper has been fighting side by side with Kazimierz Pułaski. They were not only comrades but also friends. When Pulaski was mortally wounded at Savannah in 1774, it was Colonel John Cooper who lifted the dying hero from the battlefield. He swore above his grave that when the right moment comes, either he or one of his descendants will fight for the freedom of Poland. Merian Cooper, one of colonel’s brave descendants, decided to fill this promise 140 years later. It is hard to believe, but yet the tradition of an honorary debt towards a distant country in one family lasted longer than the partitions of Poland!