Category: Fettig, Art

  • Pearl Harbor Day

    Pearl Harbor Day

    Where were you on December 7th, 1941? Now I realize that most of our readers were not born until years later. Me, I had been in downtown Detroit at the legendary Paradise Theatre being enchanted by the famous Duke Ellington Orchestra.

  • The Almost Learning Process

    The Almost Learning Process

    I’ve never been a fast learner but lately I have the feeling that my capacity to learn some things has come to a screeching halt. It has. I am making a valiant effort to learn to talk Southern and for this old Yankee it sometimes seems too much. I feel like Elizabeth Dolittle in My…

  • The Wal-Mart Caper

    The Wal-Mart Caper

    For a few days I had been thinking about my being Almost Andy and other than having a lot of fun and making some of Andy’s fans happy what was the real purpose of being Almost Andy? What was Almost Andy’s cause, his justification for existing?

  • Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    On Christmas eve, 1951 I walked over to the theatre at Camp Drake in Sapporo, Japan. I’d just rejoined the 1st Cav., returning from hospitals following being wounded in Korea.

  • Art Fettig’s Obituary

    Art Fettig’s Obituary

    Arthur J. (Art) Fettig, Jr, 91, of Hillsborough, NC passed from this life May 18, 2021, after a long and healthy life ended with several major health issues attacking him in his final 6 months. Art was born July 5, 1929 in Detroit, MI to deceased parents Arthur Fettig, Sr. and Jennie Sands Fettig. He…