Waiting since 1945. Or maybe 1939

Poland’s Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz to 4th Infantry Division soldiers:
“We have waited for you for a very long time. We waited for decades, sometimes feeling we had been left alone, sometimes almost losing hope, sometimes feeling that we were the only one who protected civilization from aggression that came from the east."

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/01/15/we-waited-decades-polish-government-welcomes-us-troops.html