Today marks the 78th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising - a brave and, according to many, foolhardy fight against the occupying Nazi forces during World War II. Today in Warsaw, streets are decorated with Polish flags. Writing about the country during the period of Solidarity, the New Yorker correspondent Lawrence Weschler observed that when an American says "that's history" it means it's old, unimportant, worth forgetting. When a Pole says "that's history," he observed, you see the veins in his forehead pop out.
