10.04.2010. Sad day for Poland...

Today, President of Poland, First Lady, as well as another 86 people of polish delegacy, president guards & crew members were killed in an plane accident which occured near Smolensk airport in Russia. They was going to visit the 70th-years anniversary of massacre in Katyn, where around 20.000 polish officers were killed during WWII. Sad symbolic coincidence...

Thousands of polish people came today near the Presidental Palace to lighten up the lamps, lay down some flowers and give back some respect.

I heard about this this morning, so sad.
thank you for sharing the photos

Very nice photos. My family has been taking this pretty hard, all the flowers in front of the palace was quite a sight and I really like the angles of the shots of the crowd and the people signing the books. Did the guards do anything special while you were near the grob nieznanego zolnierza? Must have been interesting to see what the guards do in such a situation.

very touching pics! thanks for sharing.

thx for sharing the pics mate!! Its a sad day indeed. I slept through all of this and got the news when I woke up. Hope this memorial date will unite poles even more and provide for a new, stronger Poland.

heard about that yesterday from my mom. shocking. hold on, poland

This is very sad and terrible day for polish nation

A sad day for the people of Poland, your photos touch my heart the way only a photograph can do. Thank you for sharing these sad moments.

Thank you all for the comments, today i'll post some more photos, president will be carried back to Warsaw in next 2 hours probably and later the coffin will be displayed on the Palace for a public view...

MrWho wrote in post #9971081
Very nice photos. My family has been taking this pretty hard, all the flowers in front of the palace was quite a sight and I really like the angles of the shots of the crowd and the people signing the books. Did the guards do anything special while you were near the grob nieznanego zolnierza? Must have been interesting to see what the guards do in such a situation.

Actually this is not a "Grob nieznanego zolnierza", this is Presidental Palace, there was no problem to go inside. The cancellary layed some books for people to write down, everyone can came and lay some thoughts.

So, here's couple photos from today, President were carried back to Warsaw, probsbly tomorrow the coffin will be displayed.

Thousands of people was waiting on the route from Warsaw airport to the Presidental Palace:

I have some more photos, i would love to receive some feedback.

Digital Story wrote in post #9972814
Actually this is not a "Grob nieznanego zolnierza", this is Presidental Palace, there was no problem to go inside. The cancellary layed some books for people to write down, everyone can came and lay some thoughts.

Oh, my bad. It's just so rare to see so many flags in front of the palace, it's usually by the monument so that threw me off.

All of your photos in this thread are nothing short of excellent, the latest ones do very well to capture a heavy/cold atmosphere as B&W. It's good to see such documentation of this because (hopefully) this will never happen again.

Thank you.
I'm still quite shocked of the situation. Many people here are... So many great Polish Patriots died...