[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 55 (Tuesday, April 12, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E430]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                6TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SMOLENSK DISASTER

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                      HON. MICHAEL G. FITZPATRICK

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 12, 2016

  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, it is with sadness that I join in 
acknowledging the sixth anniversary of the Smolensk Disaster, a tragedy 
that claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, 
Maria, and 94 others aboard a government aircraft on April 10, 2010. 
Among the victims were high-ranking generals and government officials, 
clergy, anti-communist leaders and the family members of victims 
enroute to a ceremony for the 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre. Also on the 
plane was one American citizen on an official mission for the City of 
Chicago. The crash at Smolensk North Military Airfield in western 
Russia is central to the event sponsored by the Commemoration Committee 
for the Smolensk Disaster and held at the National Shrine of Our Lady 
of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. On Sunday, April 17, 2016 
prayers will be offered for the souls of the 96 crash victims and honor 
those who served their country.

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