Re: Important Update on Scramble the Seawolves

Posted by Larry Rogers on Nov 29, 2016; 11:53am
URL: http://navy-seawolves.73.s1.nabble.com/Important-Update-on-Scramble-the-Seawolves-tp5010p5011.html

At the Reunion in Savannah on Friday night, Jeff presented two trailers for the "Scramble Seawolves" project. Different producers were under contract to present the story of the Seawolves to various network executives.

At the business meeting on Saturday morning, when I made the appeal for financial assistance and we passed around The Box, I made the comment that the contracts Jeff had in hand were basically a Kiss and a Promise. They said something to the effect...  "You go put it together and make it work and if it's good then we'll pay you something on the back side and we take credit." The financial burden was still on Jeff.

Since the reunion, it has come to light that these producers were not fulfilling their commitments. The presentations that Jeff was making to these guys was not being passed through. One guy apparently wanted to make it into a Buck Rogers//John Wayne type of thing.  

After attorney review, these contracts have been canceled. There had been one other option for financing but those funds had been directed elsewhere when Jeff made the request. Murphy's Law, don't you know.

Because of the delays caused by these events, financing has become an issue because of the time of year. For the next couple of months, people are busy with family and holidays. It will be February before things settle down. In the mean time, Jeff needs to get a more complete video assembled for presentation directly to the people at network level. This takes time and money. Studio time to assemble and edit the videos and splice in the stills and combine the interviews and pay other people to help do this. Remember John at the reunion who was manning the cameras at the video interviews? He wasn't working for free. And he wasn't getting minimum wage either. Jeff was paying John out of his own pocket. That's one of the reasons why the little fund raiser at the business meeting was so important.

Here's the deal. We need to raise some money to get this project through to the first of the year. The numbers are not huge. The magic number is $15,000. The bare bones, scrape-by number is $9,500. We can do this.

There are about seven hundred fifty members of the Seawolf Association. If each of us could give One Hundred Dollars, we would be set! But I know that is not going to happen. Some cannot afford that much. But can you afford Twenty Dollars? Then please donate that much. Fifty Dollars? That works too. Some of us can contribute much more. As I will. But it will take all of us to make this happen. Your help is needed.

Please contribute to our story being told. This is also part of history being preserved.

As a kid growing up as a ridge-running, backwoods redneck in the hills of North Carolina, little did I know that my time in service would one day be on a par with the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen. After WWII ended in 1945, it took over fifty years for those guys to be recognized for what they did.

In 1945, the Army produced a short film entitled "Wings for This Man" about the 332nd. It was narrated by Ronald Reagan. In 1995 (fifty years later), HBO produced the film "The Tuskegee Airmen." An episode of the documentary TV series "Dogfights" aired on the History Channel in December 2007 (sixty two years later).

For us, it has only been forty two years. Together, we can make this happen now. Please help.

Thanks guys
Larry Rogers