20. Death will be a new adventure

American pilots who died during the Polish-Soviet war, rested at the Cemetery of Defenders of Lviv. During the funeral of Edmund Graves, the words were addressed to American participants: “Tell your fellow citizens on the other side of the ocean that […]. we will deal with this grave with care and devotion; that flowers will bloom here every spring, and the memory of this fallen warrior will be combined with the names of our heroes. “Three American airmen of Kosciuszko’s Squadron were buried at the Cemetery of Defenders of Lviv. There were always fresh flowers on their grave. That was until the Soviets entered Lviv. After the war, the memory of the heroic pilots was hidden. Stalin and his successors, however, never forgot about the great spanking that Poles caused them. How great the hatred was can be confirmed with the fact that in 1972, tanks with a red star entered the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv. Not bulldozers, but tanks have destroyed the graves of Poles and American pilots.

Merian Caldwell Cooper died – April 21, 1973 in San Diego, California. Not long before his death he wrote: “The name of no other country conceals so much romanticism as Poland.”

Just before he died, he told his wife: “Death will be a new adventure”.