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Dear Mr. Wisniowski,

Recently browsing the internet, I noticed your advisory about the
Kresy-Siberia discussion group as forwarded by Mr. Ted Mirecki, moderator of
the APAP discussion group in the US (of which I am not a member, but rather a
periodic browser of its public archives). I do not know Mr. Mirecki, but I
feel obliged to him for this contact.

I have today applied for membership in your group as you will undoubtedly soon
discover or already know. My reason for doing so is a strong feeling of
kinship with people who may share my past and my bleak lack of otherwise good
and plentiful friends who may even want to but cannot know where I came from
and how it happened. Underscoring of course that it is possibly important only
to me, but hoping that maybe some others as me as well.

I was born in Isphahan (Isfahan in Polish) on Oct. 14, 1942. My pregnant (with
me) mother arrived in Iran (w Persji in family language) on one of the initial
transports evacuating children and women. My father did not succeed in joining
her since he died of typhus yet in the Soviet Union (w Rosji in family
language) before I was born in Iran. He was buried in a mass military grave in
Kermine.

My mom was faced with the life situation of a fatherless family. A newborn, a
5-yr old daughter, and her own mother as responsibilities without a husband in
time of brutal war and bleak prospects.

My father was a forester (lesniczy), my mom was a school teacher, my
grandmother was a saint, and my sister is just wonderful.

I am of course the fly in the soup, but I do know some of that history, I have
plenty of photographs from Iran, Lebanon, and England to share, and I maybe
may help others as they may help me.

Some of my pertinent background. Arrived in the US in 1952 at 10 years of age
from England. Latter part of primary education in the US and all of secondary
and higher education in the US. Citizenship - US only. Nationality - US.
Morawski is an American name by virtue of American Morawskis. I know it came
from Poland. Now it is also an American name :) Be kind to me, please?

Once worked up great sweats helping the Polish cause under Soviet (as saw it
and see it) occupation. Now disinterested in current Polish affairs since it
is their country without external brute force, and rightly none of my business
per my own moral requirements. Of course I continue my sentimental well
wishing, but I now do not have any right of even comment on their own internal
affairs, and that is just what I have always hoped for with regard to Poland.

Now that I briefly and most likely inadequately farsed about who I am, time to
end with what I am. Worthless couple of ounces of ash for sure, but while
still alive and kickin' in my naps on the bus to work ... Electronics engineer
by early and distant history, into computers before such as compter science
gained needless recognition at alma maters, did things at AIAA, did things at
IEEE, did things at mil dot com, now in private for-profit industry in
publishing related to things heretofore did.

I really am a mild and unargumentative person today. I promise to be friendly.
I don't flame people on the internet. I would like to join this group of
people likely just like me.

Ted Morawski

PS - Just to be informative, not in bragging but in advising of resources: I
think that I speak and write in the Polish language tolerably well. W
Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcine rzekla na to nasza
Kosmopolitanczykiewiczowna and such. :)