Joy in Providing A Cigarette
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Joy in Providing A Cigarette
Dysentery was a big thing in the jungle and
that's where you just had the shakes and
everything else and you'd light a cigarette
for them, they always wanted a cigarette
and so what we started doing was on
our drops, we had a big bin and we had
issue of Woodbines which some didn't like
them as opposed to the Canadian cigarettes,
for at that time you could get them for a
dollar a carton, people send them to you.
So people were encouraged to get cigarettes
from their relatives and what have you and
they were all put in this big bin and then
we tried to make it a practice dropping
cigarettes on a lot of the flights and the
word afterwards was that they really
appreciated everything that we did,
particularly the cigarettes, but you'd have to
light a cigarette for some of them because
they shook so badly and in the back of the
aircraft you'd go back and see them and
they were there in bad shape.
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