Photo from Vietnam War 1968 from siue.edu website
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Published news story by Lurene Helzer, September 24, 1987, El Cerrito Journal, “EC physical therapy clinic stresses the human touch”. This is one of those short news stories that, for a small newspaper, define the real job.
You are trying to let residents of the area know what’s around them, where they can spend their dollars.
In this case, we were talking about a small business on San Pablo Avenue owned and operated by a Polish couple, Gregory and Helena Gorecki. This was a unique story. It’s not the kind of immigrant family we hear enough about. This incredible family had fled Poland in terror. Mr. Gorecki truly arrived in – and remained in -- the United States the harder way by choice:
After living through the Nazi occupation of Poland and losing both of his parents, he fled the country during the late Sixties by hopping a train bound for Vienna, Austria.
“I was not easily admitted to the United States,” Gorecki remembers. But he said he hated the communist government of Poland so much that when he was finally admitted to the United States in the last years of the 1960s, he volunteered to fight communists in Vietnam.
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