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SUKMAN: Soldier's Diary: Smoking Cigars in Baghdad  

I am writing while my roommate Alex waits on me so we can smoke a cigar to finish off the day. We do this a couple of days a week.

Prior to heading back to the tents or trailers, we smoke a cigar and talk about what we intend to do when this deployment is over. If we head out of here in late September as planned, then tonight is the 140-day mark before we leave the country, barring anything unexpected. . . .

I have had my family and friends from home send cigars over, as have a number of other officers on staff. Next to toothpaste and baby wipes, they rank third in quantity of care packages. I am still working on a box I received in December.

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