WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland put on its biggest military parade in years Friday to mark its annual armed forces holiday, with the president saying the violence in Ukraine shows that conflict is still a “brutal reality” in Eastern Europe and Poland must be able to defend itself.
Present at the ceremony was the family of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis, who was killed in Afghanistan in August 2013 while shielding a Polish soldier from a suicide bomber who attacked the Polish base in Ghazni. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
