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Show DU TIN EXTON MB R 21 2009 Romanians; we met with the Georgians the president of Georgia which wa pr tty n at THE guy. It was really neat to see because when I went back three months lat r you could see the money that we'd started pouring in. When we first went in, the country was Third World, but the people were First World. They understood what the country should have been, but when the Russians pulled out, they'd jacked the country all up, they took and dumped nuclear waste in certain areas. Basically the military base that we were working out of, they had taken everyone that was a true Russian, they pulled them out of this base and forced them to go back to Russia and they weren't allowed to take their families if they were not true Russians, which was just awful mean. You'd see all these people that were living in the old NCO barracks or the old, basically squatting if you will, and they didn't have windows on the buildings and they were just run down. They were military families that were left when the Russians pulled out and it was just sad. But the cool thing was, when we went back two months later, it was just over two months, and you could see, I guess the figure was like $60 million is what we dumped in two months into this country and you could just see the spread of goodness, is what I called it at the time. From the city center, the mayor's building, all the way around this building, there was just like this spread of goodness that wasn't there when we first went there and they just started redecorating and repainting and getting everything back to being a country that was proud of their own country. It was just amazing to see, versus what we saw in Iraq, where it was gimme, gimme, gimme, where have you been for twelve years? It was this, within two months, you saw this huge change and that was really cool. 5 |
