Mel Chancey

And there had to be 250 people on Sidney's dock, because we were at our military appreciation weekend that we throw once a year.

We have a big outreach for our military, a core medical foundation.

And we do this for our military.

We raised $180,000 to donate for our military men and women.

And we teamed up with this company, Beyond the Barracks, and that builds houses for our veterans and stuff like that.

full crew there that were watching this everybody came out on on sydney's dock and uh i was thinking i hope this thing holds right but we went down in the water and uh it was amazing i didn't as soon as i started speaking cody started shaking and then colton started shaking and i'm like i had to hold it together here and say these words right and uh and it was just so cool man we all hugged and then you did you see the videos of me running out it was low tide sean when this was going on

And back there, you know, it was all mucky mud.

And when I watched Colton take a few steps, well, he took one step and he went all the way down to his hip and he goes, yeah, that's not water, Mel.

And I'm like, ah.

So I'm at 57.

I'm a little older.

I'm trying to hold on to these guys, right?

And then you got the videos of me running out.

They're like, Mel, you were running out of there.

I said, yeah, I ran faster than when I got the federal sentence, right?

I didn't want them to eat me out there, but...

It was an amazing thing.

I was honored that he had asked me.

We became close, and through the years, he's been talking to me a lot about it, and he wanted to make sure he was ready, and I said, do that.

I made sure I was ready before I got baptized.