For the second holiday season in a row, a Vietnam veteran of Gulf Breeze, Florida, has extended a huge gesture of kindness to his community by paying off $7,600 worth of past due utility bills to ease the burden for local families ahead of Christmas. Mike Esmond is a 74-year-old great-grandfather who runs Gulf Breeze Pools & Spas. His generosity ignited with one of the incidents from his past, as he himself once had his gas shut off while struggling financially in 1983, along with raising three young daughters. At that time, the loss of power was quite devastating. “I decided not to pay the gas bill [once] because this is Florida, it doesn’t get cold,” Esmond told CBS News. “Boy, was I wrong about that … [it] turned out to be the coldest winter that Pensacola had ever experienced.” Over three decades later, and with the means to help …