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and me and my schoolmates from other classes became members of this team.
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Of course, we weren’t told what kind of team it was and where its headquarters was.
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We weren’t told anything about this.
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But they told us a great deal about conspiracy.
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We didn’t know what it meant,
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but our team leader, Michał Sianorzecki, who was killed in the Warsaw Uprising,
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thought that it was very important for us to know what it was all about and told us a lot about it.
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There was democracy in our organization and the troop council decided, because all our instructors belonged to the Home Army,
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our troop to be part of the Szare Szeregi [Gray Ranks - the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association].
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And me, very soon, I got into the BS, i.e. Combat School.
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There were boys from more or less 15 years of age till 18.
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Later you had the GS, i.e. the assault groups with boys between 17, 18 and twenty something.
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This is where they had the squads like ‘Zośka’, ‘Parasol’, ‘Miotła’, some sabotage troops.
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They did not want us in sabotage, we were too young.
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Our scout authorities made it clear not to get us into sabotage.
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Naturally, we cheated them a bit with how old we were.
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Me, being 14, I got into a non-commissioned officer school, because, naturally, I lied I was 17.
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Brother Jerzy’s commander found out that I was a scout,
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that I was being trained in how to trail to do some intelligence activity.
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They trained our perceptiveness, imagination.
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