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[Rockestone]

That's great! Thanks for posting.

[Throb]

That is beautiful! Gorillas (or inmates) are really good people.

Puffer fish are, well...

[Lucky_Hippo]

Wow. Now that is cool!

[zmancbr]

Originally Posted by Lucky_Hippo

Wow. Now that is cool!

That is definitely a wonderful thing.

Originally Posted by pnoon

Consider it done.

Thanks Pnoon, much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Jbailey

Glad to see that the smokes got there, very cool Rob.

Originally Posted by Gophernut

Nicely done! That's really cool!

Originally Posted by zmancbr

That is definitely a wonderful thing.

Thanks guys it certainly felt great to be able to make that delivery. I did run into a couple of problems at the start of trying to arrange transport to the troops as the Polish Embassy was hesitant to get involved in arranging transport.

Once we communicated more clearly the two coolers flew out of the U.S. on the same plane as the Polish president. It was kind of a funny story because they didn't anticipate just how much room 1000 cigars along with humidification actually takes.

So in any case, the Polish President was visiting the States on some official business and the Polish government arranged with his staff to have the two coolers flown on his plane.

It's possible that the Colonel that I was dealing with was just telling me a tall tale but I doubt he would risk looking dumb over something like that so I'm inclined to believe him.

I'll tell ya, truth is stranger than fiction more often than not.

Cheers,
Rob

Allow me to elaborate on some of the other things that were contributed aside from cigars.

50 V-Cutters.
Lots of water pillows & humidification devices.
U.S. Military patches and, if I remember correctly, U.S. Aviation scarves and the like.
Cigar decals and stickers.
Several personal notes & letters to the troops ( I didn't read them as they weren't to me)

All in all I dare say that I got so much out of this that it's hard to put into words. The feeling of brotherhood from the Jungle/Inmates and the feeling of getting those stogies to the troops was, and still is, just amazing.

Cheers,
Rob

[68TriShield]

Thanks for sharing Rob

[JohnnyKay5]

thats awesome.. i'm polish, and it was great seeing some brothern over there. Thanks for sending them some smokes.. great job!

That is great. Thanks for sharing it with us here.

[Texan in Mexico]

Very cool Rob and thanks for sharing here.

[BP22]

Well done...that is awesome!

Thank you for sharing that with us No1lder. That is so great! I find that I am continually blown away by the caliber of people we have in our midst.

Thanks!

[CBI_2]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.