{"id":21978,"date":"2023-01-26T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=21978"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:13:42","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-26jan2023-life-on-the-florida-panhandle-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/guest-contributor-tomd-26jan2023-life-on-the-florida-panhandle-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor &#8211; TomD &#8211; 26JAN2023 &#8211; Life on the Florida Panhandle &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomd77\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/category\/guest-contributors\/guest-contributor-tomd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TomD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live on the Florida Panhandle. I think the area is ideologically closer to being a part of Alabama than the peninsula. Add to that the heavy military, ex-military presence and relatively sparse Southern indigenous population and we\u2019re essentially our own little time capsule.<\/p>\n<p>There are damn few weirdos here to self expel, though, if they ask, we\u2019d be happy to help.<\/p>\n<p>My nearest neighbor, who lived a few hundred yards away, died a few weeks ago. He was, like me, an ex-Marine, A Sergeant Major (E-9) but he had 24 years in compared to my pitiful 4.You can\u2019t imagine how impressive a real USMC Sergeant Major is. They are disciplined, dedicated, controlled, focused, steady and composed. Marines call it squared away. Everything we should aspire to be but almost all of us fail in some or several aspects. He had a flagpole in front of his house and played reveille and taps at appropriate times and ran the Colors up and down with appropriate ceremony EVERY day. You don\u2019t see that in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Comment from Ed Brault<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reminds me of this great short:Reveille.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YyZ9b4My6NUhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/YyZ9b4My6NU\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/YyZ9b4My6NUhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/YyZ9b4My6NU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom | Flickr TomD &nbsp; I live on the Florida Panhandle. 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