The number of Poles in our country and their Americanborn descendants have grown rapidly from the small handful of artisans in Jamestown. Today they total nearly six million. But the essential character of these people has never changed. Endowed with an astounding capacity for hard work and a love for freedom that has been denied to them in the motherland Polish immigrants have chosen to join others in their fight for independence. In the American Revolution. for example. the muster rolls of the Continental Army reveal at least a thousand "skis" and wiczs" and other unmistakably Polish names Among them were two spectacular young volunteers. Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski.