Dawid Pietrek, a Polish citizen, was posthumously honored in a ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw November 19, 2008, during which Ambassador Victor Ashe and the U.S. Marine Guard Detachment honored his service in the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan. Private First Class Pietrek had volunteered for duty in June 2007 after emigrating to the United States in 2005. He died in action on June 14, 2008, in Afghanistan and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on July 1, where his mother received a certificate of his being granted U.S. citizenship. His mother, Dorota Pietrek; sister, Ewelina Pietrek; and grandmother, Jadwiga Huniewicz traveled from Police, near Szczecin, to attend the Embassy ceremony. Ambassador Ashe presented them with the Purple Heart, the prestigious U.S. military medal for soldiers wounded or killed in the line of duty. U.S. Marine Security Guard Detachment Commander Sgt. Robert Kunard and the detachment presented the Pietrek’s with an American flag and Private Pietrek’s medals and Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn presented a hand-drawn portrait of Private Pietrek.