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Due to a shrinking membership, the SPK was officially terminated during a 2012 convention. SPK President Janusz Krzyżanowski became the chairman of the liquidation committee which includes also Czesław
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The veterans who belonged to the SPK maintained the graves of Polish soldiers who fell on the
European battlefields, located in Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, among others. SPK members are also buried on established section in the cemetery of American
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