Talk:Jack Lewis (screenwriter)

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Following is my e-mail to the Los Angeles Times following Jack Lewis' obituary (I'm sure many facts are going to be disputed, but every personal aspect of Jack's life and military career came directly from him):

Thanks for Jack's obituary. He and I were stationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, in 1955-'56 and became drinking/fighting buddies despite the fact that he was a captain serving as base public information officer and I was a sergeant editing the Windward Marine newspaper. We both were 4312s, the Marine Corps MOS (military occupational specialty) for combat correspondents.

I see that, even in death, he's managed to continue the legend. Sorry but he didn't drive the cycle off the ship -- or even leap off -- for Mr. Roberts. He was, however, banned, from Waikiki by HASP (Hawaiian Armed Services Police) and I carried him, physically, out of Trader Vic's on several occasions to evade the SPs and MPs. One drink and Jack was intoxicated; 20 more and he still was functioning. (Much like his buddy, Victor "The Brute" Krulak, who went on to become commandant of the Marine Corps.)

You mention his books, but probably are not aware of his powerful, scathing Green Grows the Brass, about Marine Corps leadership after he was boot ed out of the Corps as an alcoholic. Later it was found he was diabetic, never detected by Navy doctors in all his years in uniform, which caused his alcoholic intolerance. A lawsuit resulted in his being restored to rank.

Jack was a mustang in the finest tradition. He was a staff sergeant given a field commission, and never gave up the hard-drinking, hard-fighting tradition of the enlisted man. We spent several evenings up on Black Hawk Road (Diamond Head) at James Michener's home, drinking and dissecting Michener's latest, Hawaii.

I last saw Jack in the '80s, when he was still publishing Gun World and running the Marine Corps Reserve in Southern California. Always skinny as a rail, he had gotten rotund in his later years, and we didn't let that go unnoticed. He was no longer drinking, but the cigarette continued to be ever-present.

Jack is an iconic reminder of the Old Corps, and he will be missed terribly by those of us who served with him.

Jerry Sellers Fullerton, California —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerry sellers (talk • contribs) 23:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

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