Day# 144 - Cigar Extravaganza

A little over a week ago I received six packages in the mail and after looking at the return address I realized I had no idea who the person was. Inside the boxes were cigars ... lots of cigars ... probably around 200 cigars or so. After making a few phone calls I finally found out that the person who sent the cigars was a friend of a friend of a friend, who had found out that me and the boys like to enjoy a cigar from time to time over here in Iraq. Well, it turns out this person spread the word to a few of his buddies who then proceeded to send him cigars. He then compiled them and sent them all to me. The cigars came from people all across the U.S. and even Canada.

Their timing was perfect because this past Saturday my unit gathered for a dinner to celebrate the approaching half way point of the deployment (the doctors and nurses are switching out at 6 months but the majority of the unit is staying for 12-15 months). I wanted to share these cigars with the rest of the guys, and besids there were way too many for me to smoke before I left. So I set up the cigars on some tables and let people pick and choose what they wanted. Everybody loved it and it was a great opportunity to initiate some new members into the cigar smoking club.

I have includedsome pictures below and just wanted to thank all the guys from CigarAficianado.com and CigarOutcast.com for their tremendous genorousity. This was a really big morale booster for our soldiers over here and a great reminder of how great a nation we are fighting for.