Sunday, October 19, 2014

Worth keeping all these years later: A Churchill cigar (yes, that Churchill)

 

(unionleader.com) NEW LONDON - Bob Gaudreault keeps lots of mementos from days long past in his old cigar box, which is from a day when good cigars only cost 11 cents.
Gaudreault, 97, has news clippings, photos, and even notes written by his late wife in the box. They remind him of life in the early 1940s when he was a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, serving as an intelligence officer in England and France near the end of World War II.
But one memento stands out from the others. It's an old cigar, which Gaudreault has kept all these years because it was given to him by one of Winston Churchill's officers as a gift. Continued

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