Re: Important Update on Scramble the Seawolves

Posted by Mike Dobson on Nov 29, 2016; 8:57pm
URL: http://navy-seawolves.73.s1.nabble.com/Important-Update-on-Scramble-the-Seawolves-tp5010p5013.html

Well said Larry, I totally agree. As many of you know, I was Pres at the start of this project, ..........  I had met Jeff and Shannon at the Santa Monica High School Seawolves Homecoming game when Jeff and Shannon did a video of the event and I watched them for that evening and how they were attached to us through Shannon being Joe Crutcher's daughter........  in other words, this was not a Brandon Tully "Seawolves of Vietnam" type incentive or interest. This was far more personal.  When the request was made to me to back this I felt immediately that this was the connection to "get it done" right. After some thought , I realized that, as Larry said above, we were something special that would never happen again. Ideas and proposals have been passed back and forth about how do we carry on ...... one of those thoughts involved integrating with the Redwolves and Firehawks as a association to "continue our word" . After breaching thoughts about this to members of those groups and looking at reality, we have realized that those two groups are our "children/grandchildren" and much like the majority of us, we didn't join the Legion or VFW because they were members of our Grandfathers clubs, but we backed them and looked up to the trials they had faced to keep the flag high over us. I realized that our service in HAL-3 is very much like the groups Larry mentioned ------- but I also compared us to " Doolittles Raiders" in the respect that when the last one of us dies, "The light will be turned out" ...... no amount of integration with other groups will ever change that ...... we will be gone forever.
  Now, that being said,  WE WANT THIS TO BE DONE RIGHT !!!!  While this has taken time to get this far, and some of us have passed on and will not see the finished project, this is probably our only shot to do it right !!  With our backing, I fully expect a finished project to tell the truth about us and our daily devotion to those we made the pact with to protect at all costs, including our lives -------- a amazingly small number of us , 44 to be exact, ended up paying that price. For all of us that were there, we need the truth to be told. If Hollywood jumps on it after Jeff and Shannon's production, then I will enjoy knowing OUR version is there first ..... and hope I will enjoy seeing the Hollywood version later.  I can only imagine the heavy heart feeling that came Jeff and Shannon when other elements tried to alter our story to fiction. That being said, I am saying now, I whole heartedly back Jeff and Shannon in their decision to "break it off" and continue on the "gravel road" to success. It would have been easy to "stay on the smooth pavement" and let it happen to an ending that would not have fulfilled Jeff and Shannon's promise. In the spirit of the SEAWOLVES, it took GUTS to decide to once again split off and journey on to continue to complete the promise they made to Joe, myself, and every one of the SEAWOLVES. I fully support their decision ------- As Larry said, every dollar counts --- my check is in the mail -- that is my Merry Christmas to all of us !!!!   Jeff and Shannon -------- YOU ROCK !!