![]() I remember when I was eight-years-old – and we were on a family camping trip, and my father had returned from running – I remember seeing scars all over his body, and I asked my mother about it. My father was always a bit of a mysterious man when I was growing up. Thomas Smith Jr.: Growing up, did you know your dad was a hero? We recently sat down with Rita Cosby and discussed with her what she says is the most important story of her life, her father. Without their courage, Solidarity would never have won its final battle." Richard Cosby and his Resistance comrades are true heroes in our historic fight for freedom. ![]() Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger calls QUIET HERO, “A beautiful tribute to the strength of the human spirit." And Lech Walesa, former President of Poland, says, "One of Poland's great treasures has now been found. Lech Kaczynski (killed just weeks ago in a plane crash) presented a plaque to Cosby commemorating his heroic wartime service. Moreover, the elder Cosby will finally receive long-overdue recognition. His story “opened the floodgates of emotion” between father and daughter, the younger Cosby tells me, but "this book reminds us all of what it really means to be an American, and it is a legacy we all can be proud of," she says. What the elder Cosby did not do is tell his story to his children – the past was simply too dark to dredge up – until now. Army Air Forces pilot.Īfter the war, Kossobudzki (today 84), “met a nice Danish girl,” he says, left his native Poland for America, anglicized his name to Richard Cosby (as so many immigrants did in those days), and started a family, naming his now-celebrity daughter, Rita, after a cousin Rita who also served in the resistance. This book is about Cosby’s father, Ryszard Kossobudzki, a Polish Resistance fighter during World War II, who was badly wounded, captured by the Nazis, held in a POW camp, escaped and ultimately rescued by American military forces after retrieving handwritten directions-to-freedom wrapped in a chocolate bar and dropped to Kossobudzki and his comrades by a U.S.
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