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Poland’s basketball star Marcin Gortat has visited the Bagram Polish military base in Afghanistan.

He told Polish soldiers that they are true heroes, as, unlike the athletes competing in sports halls, they risk their lives to make life safer for others.
Gortat said he was under the impression of the professional skills of Polish troops. He admitted that he’d wriggled out of military service, however, when serving in the Polish armed forces was compulsory.
“I was stupid because I didn’t realize what I was losing,” Gortat said.
Sporting the orange colours of his NBA team Phoenix Suns, Gortat joined the team of Polish soldiers in a basketball match against Americans.
The Polish team won 71 to 67.
From Bagram, Gortat goes to other Polish military bases in Afghanistan. The Polish contingent in that country numbers 2, 500 troops and personnel.
Marcin Gortat has set up a foundation which helps soldiers who had suffered in various ways while serving on military missions. This summer, it organized summer holidays for fifty children of those soldiers who lost their lives or suffered injuries

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Props for doing this, they must love him in Poland.

Wow, what a top guy!

Rad

Awesome. Very cool of him to do this since they love him so much in Poland. Also very awesome since he was sporting his suns colors

Good for him I love when people who are rich and successful take time to hang with and recognize people who have it rough over there. I went to a Roger Waters Wall concert also 6 weeks ago and there was a half hour intermission...waiting for my friend to come out of the bathroom the security guard was commenting how he (Roger) doesnt take an intermission that he uses it to do a meet and greet with like 20-30 local vets who attend the concert and just hang with them and talk.

Here's video

http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/wideo/marcin-gortat-z-misja-w-afganistanie,87948,w.html