Get Your Cape. Wear Your Cape. Learn to Fly

Forgive me today for directing the column to readers beyond Silesia and Poland, but I want international readers to have a better understanding of what’s going on here. Over the past two weeks, the true essence of the Polish people came to the fore, a quiet, practical heroism that moved smoothly through the gears from February 24th and left me wondering how well I knew the country I now call home.

I’ve never seen Poles or Silesians act like this before, but there is something about a crisis that brings out the best in people. The Poles have found themselves, found a part of themselves that had been hidden away for a while: selflessness, the essential trait of all heroes. On every corner, in every neighbourhood, a sturdy, unobtrusive selflessness and yes, I know, writers are prone to fits of hyperbole, but what else can you call the response to this vile war which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people? Heroism comes in many forms; Lt Col Eamonn Colclough, an Irishman who served in the UN and who ran from the Post Office building in Sarajevo to rescue a gang of children whom someone had deemed to be a legitimate target for mortar fire. Eamonn and four other soldiers ran into no-man’s land, grabbing whoever they could..

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