Today marks the anniversary of the death of Józef Piłsudski, the greatest hero of the Second Polish Republic and the owner and proprietor of its most splendid moustache. His words to historians, “I only ask that you not make me out to be a ‘whiner and sentimentalist’,” inspire me neither to whine nor sentimentalize—except to say, to my mother, “Hey, Bob, have a good one.”
