friend of mine was here in washington and he met with a french politician by the name of natalie kosciuszko morrisette, how do you have this name? and she said, well, we were supposedly descendents of kosciuszko's brother. .. >> why do i think? because kosciuszko was very good friends with jefferson. and one of the letters that i've found jefferson writes to kosciuszko saying we are both older now and we don't have many years left ahead of us. in fact, i have this plot of land, this plot where i'm going to be buried. and come to virginia and live, you know, on my estate, live at monticello and you can be buried right next to me. but i think the reason kosciuszko did not return it because he had these high hopes that either napoleon or somebody would attack russia and freed the polls from the russians and the prussians and the austrians who had all taken them. and kosciuszko was also given 500 acres in ohio as a result of his being a general in the american revolution. so he had his own land. he could have come and live in ohio on that land as well. the reason i think he didn't return it because he a