Pastor, just a couple of gentle suggestions.
1) You may want to take the trolley tour and get to know The Villages a bit. There's around 120,000 or so of us. Any skill, trade, or profession is represented, often with quite a few people. There's a list of clubs updated monthly by the Community Development District which will give you an idea of what the over 2000 clubs are about. Most Villagers are kind hearted and we raise truly monumental amounts of money for local charities and support a wide range of activities in the surrounding communities.
2) I have not seen an exact census of vets, but I suspect there's 20,000 plus of us here. The Lady Lake Legion post is the largest in the world (by membership). If we all showed up for the Armed Forces Day service, we'd probably fill your parking lot (plus most of the streets of Fruitland Park.
Welcome to a totally different scale of thinking of things.
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