text:  welcome colonel halverson i've known about you for a long time but it's just such a great pleasure to have gotten to know you this week as well and what a lot of people don't realize is you went on to become the commander of teflhoff air base you served in uniform for many more years and you've been an ambassador of goodwill around the world we thought it only fitting that we should give you two sticks of gum because they changed your life and the lives of so many thank you this little gift changed my life forever