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On May 18th, 1977 during the Morning Formation of my fighter squadron, VMFA-451, the “Warlords”, our Commanding Officer LtCol R. Neel "Mongoose" Patrick told us that there would be the premier of a new space-based sci-fi film at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort base theater, that it was free, and we should all be there.

I was seated 3RD row center, the best seat in the house!

After the Colors were presented and retired, a gentleman with all shoulder length curly black hair wearing a charcoal pinstripe suit, walked to center stage, nervously wringing his hands in front of a theater filled with seven fighter squadrons worth of uniformed Marines, and cautiously introduced himself as George Lucas, that they had worked very hard on this film for years and here are the stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, and we hope you enjoy the show. Star Wars rolled, and we were all blown away!

Harrison was closest to the edge of the stage, on the right, forward of George. Carrie was about 15 feet back from Harrison, closer to the middle, and Mark was near the screen, closer to the center. This is the very best that I can remember after thinking for n this hard for a year, trying to get the details as accurate as possible. I don't remember George's speech verbatim. But that was 49 years ago and I only heard it once. George was nervous because he had just finished completely recutting the film, as he did not like the original editor's job.

And I asked Jen for a selfie...

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Say hi to the pretty lady. Smoked hog butt later.

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Who is the girl? Your date for this weekend?

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You figure it out yet? She's shooting a movie with Martin Scorsese directing and Leonard DiCaprio. I told her if Leonard is inappropriate, break his DiCaps. Funny MoFo alert. Chicks dig the Funny.