I love a parade

I finally dragged Robert out to the Veterans Day parade -- I think my favorite of the dozens we have every year. Not as if it was a long trip: Our house is maybe 50 more yards on the diagonal beyond that pink building, Duval House.

Fortunately, he got it: The service members, scouts, bands, vets, auxiliaries, all passing to applause and shouts of thanks.

The Army Special Forces School, whose underwater unit is based here, says it was a coincidence, but their current class had its finals on Wednesday morning because of the high winds, big chop and low visibility: "awful" conditions that were perfect for high stress.

About two dozen trainees did a high-altitude drop into the ocean miles west of here, used stealth-propelled underwater vehicles and rebreathers to swarm toward land and "infiltrated" Key West at our old Civil War outpost, Ft. Zach.

Then they did their nine-mile run.