I landed in Warsaw about 24 hours after the death of the Polish president. And of all the places and things I have seen in my life, what I saw in Warsaw yesterday had to be one of the most amazing. The entire city square was lit with paraffin lanterns. Despite the huge crowd that I saw in front of the presidential palace at 2AM, you could have heard a pin drop. It was an entire city in mourning. Irregardless of how individual Poles felt about Kaczynski's politics, everyone here has banded together to get through what is being called the most devastating event since the end of the war in Poland. A new leader has to be picked in the next 60 days, and investigations will begin shortly, but right now this entire nation is unified in their grief. I am so lucky to be right in the thick of such a historic time and place.
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