I was stationed at Parris Island, S.C. from 1976- 1979. I was from Stone Mountain, Georgia and was heading home for the weekend driving over the causeway to the island and listening to the radio. They were filming parts of Smokey and the Bandit all around my hometown and county in the summer of 1977. The radio stated that a stunt driver let the vehicle get away from him (the black Trans Am) and it crashed into some bleachers at Redan ball park in Redan, Georgia, about 5 miles from our house. I told myself, I know where that is as I was headed that way. It doesn't seem that it has been 41 years ago. I always liked Burt Reynolds as an actor. Personally one thing that I believe made him such a star was that he didn't seem to take himself too seriously. He was good in most every film he made, but I really thought he was great in his parts in the movies Deliverance and The Longest Yard. R.I.P. Burt Reynolds. He brought a lot of entertainment and laughter to the world.