…"There's no reason to remember him." (Frank Liversedge, commenting on the disappearance of american cameraman Patrick Kit McDermott.)
For the 15-year-old son he leaves behind, his worried family and singer-actress Olivia Newton-John, there's a lifetime of reasons to remember Patrick Kim McDermott.
Liversedge, manager at the 22 Street Pier where sports-fishing boats launch in San Pedro, California also said that among the 23 passengers, none of the three crew members on the fishing boat called "Freedom," could remember what McDermott looked like.
The photo posted with this column is what Patrick McDermott looks like.
It's been seven heartbreaking weeks since Olivia Newton-John's beloved of nine years boarded a charter boat and hasn't been seen since.
The devastated singer-actress and Pride of australia is calling on the public for information and prayers, asking anyone with information that could help to "please, please come forward".
No one knows if McDermott, 48, was lost at sea or even remained on the chartered boat. He was last seen eating in the galley and his fishing gear was found on Freedom. But surely among 23 passengers and three crewmembers some one must have remembered something, even the smallest of details about him. It was an overnight trip.
Meeting in 1996 when Newton John was filming a television ad in Los angeles, the couple stayed together for nine years. The singer-actress and the cameraman were photographed together when they arrived for the opening night of Mama Mia at the L.a. Shubert Theatre in February of 2001.
While McDermott, whose vehicle was found by family members in a marina parking lot on July 11 is a resident of L.a.'s Van Nuys area, Newton-John hails from australia.
While Down Under is thousands of miles away from California, it's only minutes away on the Internet.
anyone searching the Net in australia would readily find the news of the missing cameraman thrown in with items such as "The Pitts Split" and "angeline (Jolie) Joins the Skinny Club".
They could even discover the story of one supermarket tabloid suggesting that the missing McDermott "took himself missing".
It's a scene straight out of the 1978 movie, Grease where Newton-John played opposite to John Travolta, and anyone with an imagination can hear the words from her famed song, Hopelessly Devoted to You reverberating.
Hauntingly, the first lines from the song are…"Guess mine is not the first heart broken. My eyes are not the first to cry."
But this is neither a movie, nor the haunting first words of a famous song. It's the tragedy of real life that comes complete with the desperation of waiting for someone's footsteps at the door.
While the america Coast Guard investigates, here's hoping the three crew members and perhaps even some of the 23 passengers are poring over pictures, like the one posted here of the missing american cameraman.
There may be "no reason to remember him" for strangers like Frank Liversedge.
But there's every reason in the world to remember Patrick Kim McDermott for his son, Olivia Newton-John and family and friends still waiting desperately for any news of him. .
God bless those waiting for Patrick's return.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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