2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 281
Commending Romuald Lipinski.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 10, 2026
Agreed to by the Senate, March 12, 2026
WHEREAS, Romuald Lipinski, a Polish veteran of World War II who later settled in the Commonwealth and served the United States government as an engineer, celebrated his 100th birthday in 2025; and
WHEREAS, born in Poland in 1925, Romuald Lipinski was the youngest child of Edward and Salomea Lipinski; and
WHEREAS, in September of 1939, after the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland, Romuald Lipinski and his family were forcibly relocated to a one-room apartment, but continued to open their home to refugees, Polish soldiers, or anyone in need of assistance; and
WHEREAS, in 1941, Romuald Lipinski and his family were deported to Siberia, where he endured a weeks-long battle with typhus; they were subsequently allowed to leave after joining a Polish military unit to fight against Nazi Germany; and
WHEREAS, Romuald Lipinski was assigned to a mortar platoon in the 12th Podolski Lancers Regiment of the British Eighth Army; after training, he landed in Taranto, Italy, in December of 1943; and