 I'm just happy that you guys are happy. So we could do something to make you feel like Christmas is here for you and you know just something to take your mind off things while you're going through your deployment. I mean that's an awesome feeling for us so we appreciate you guys being happy. Thank you very much. This has brightened a lot of people's days. It's awesome. You know, just this week my wife and son and her family they finally put up the tree in our house because she's expecting so she can't do everything but they went over and helped her out with my son and you know not being able to do that with them you know kind of depressing but being able to be here and decorate this tree here kind of just you know it's still it's still good but I'd like to thank the people that were responsible for making this happen you know so thank you very much. Does it bring a piece of home here? Oh absolutely, absolutely. How do you think everyone feels about it as a whole? Oh I think they're excited. Well you know obviously I can't talk for everybody else but as far as for our group here, our section we're very excited to get these trees and the smell of that fresh pine too it just kind of like that really like hits you you know because I don't think you can get that smell around here. At this time I'd like to thank all of the Hoosiers that made it possible to send the wonderful Christmas trees to our unit and other Hoosiers soldiers serving here in both Kuwait and abroad and Afghanistan and throughout the area. They were very well received. We had a great trip up to Camp Virginia in Kuwait to pick up the trees, secure them and bring them back to our base camp here at Camp Aravachan in Kuwait. It was a wonderful time. We were able to distribute the soldiers among our command tents and we're now having a contest to be able to see who can decorate the trees the best and certainly looking forward to that the troops really got into that and we're really excited about it. It's always good to have a piece of home and certainly the Christmas trees do that for us here so we just want to express a warm thanks to all those folks that made this possible and thinking about us during this holiday season and wish you all the best. Thank you. Well, I think it's a great show of Hoosier hospitality and the patriotism of the Christmas tree growers in Indiana shipping the trees over here to Hoosiers and seeing the smiles on the soldiers' faces as they were pulling the boxes out of the back of the trucks and pulling them up to their trees and up to their tents and watching them decorate it. I think that it draws them closer to the holidays and brings them kind of back to their roots of Indiana and it will increase the morale and just seeing them smile as they're decorating the trees and they're not playing Christmas music in their tents so it'll raise their spirits and morale around the holidays. Well, I think the decoration contest will encourage the soldiers in all the tents to get involved and come up with different ideas and their creativity and just the esprit de corps and camaraderie that will build not only with the Indiana soldiers that are here that received the Christmas trees but also the 191 CSSB which is a reserve unit out of Utah. I'm getting the partake, the 436th MCB out of the off the east coast that will be able to participate as well as the 47th transportation battalion out of Fort Bliss which is an active duty unit that gets to participate in the tree decorating contest. And seeing the smiles on their faces to get a live tree is just an awesome thing to see in the month of December as we're coming into the Christmas holiday. I would just like to thank all the Hoosiers for their support. The trees are great as you can see the one behind me that the soldiers have already taken time to decorate and all the support for the soldiers in the Marine Corps, the Marines, the Airmen and the Coast Guard that are serving and deployed serving their country. We appreciate everything you do for us.