EULOGY
Thank you for being with me today to honor the memory of my departed Mother, as I fulfill her instruction and desire to have her ashes reposed in the sea. First, I want to tell you a little about my Mom's life. Mom was born on November 20, 1955. Yesterday would have been her 54th birthday. Mom was born in the town of Zgierz in central Poland. Poland had been devastated by the Second World War, which ended just a few short years before Mom's birth. Poland was then firmly in the repressive iron grip of Communist Russia. Mom was born in a place and at at time characterized by hopelessness and lack of individual freedom - a place and a time in which conformity to the will of the Communist masters was required, while individuality and independent thought were suppressed and punished.
Nonetheless, as a result of the example, guidance and tutelage of her parents, Mom never accepted hopelessness as her destiny, or mindless conformity to the collective will as an immutable reality of life.
