Resilience

It is difficult to grasp the scope of the disaster which has befallen the Poles with the loss not only of their President, but also so many of their key leaders from the military, Church and business. The fact that they were on their way to honour the memory of an earlier elite gives this tragedy a symbolism of biblical proportions.  

In a devout country  faith will be proclaimed with quiet devotion as this nation, which links Eastern and Western Europe, struggles to come to terms with its grief. Poland and its people will pull through. They have a resilience and courage, perhaps greater than any nation on the Continent, over whose land the tramp of armies passing one way then the other has echoed for centuries past. The proud Polish people will cope and, not for the first time, set all the rest of us an example to admire. 

Our sympathy is heartfelt.