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Kilo November 4, Bravo Papa Oscar returning. I drink my coffee black with one shot of stevia in it. And I just want to make a comment on the Monday that someone asked how I got the AKA, the Lorax. I used to work for a contractor to the US Army Corps of Engineers. And here in the part of Georgia that I live in, pretty much everybody has gone to planting either loblolly or slash pines when they do forest renovations. Well, I got on the bandwagon. And there's not very many longleaf pines in this part of Georgia. And historically, that was the dominant species. And in a lot of ways, it's a lot better. But the reason they plant those other kind is because they produce faster. And you can get pulpwood and timber out of them quicker. So I got on the bandwagon and started admonishing everyone, including the Corps of Engineers, to when they do timber harvest to replant with longleaf pines to restore that historic forest in this part of Georgia. And so everyone started calling me the Lorax, because that was kind of his mission, too. The Lorax was, his mission was to save the truffula trees. But my mission was to save the longleaf pine tree. Let me touch it down here, and let me mention one more thing.