Category: Fettig, Art

  • Musical Enchantment

    Musical Enchantment

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    I sat down recently at my drum set upstairs and a memory flashed into my mind.  I was 13, had met a new friend my age just two streets over and found out he was playing boogie woogie on his downstairs piano.

  • Drums, Tap Dancing and Life Saving

    Drums, Tap Dancing and Life Saving

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    I was a Private E-2 in the US Army in 1951, just out of my basic training,  and had just boarded a troop ship in Seattle headed for Korea with a stop off at Camp Drake at Yokohama in Japan. An announcement on the PA said that Special Services was conducting auditions for musicians and entertainers…

  • Something Good About This Mess

    Something Good About This Mess

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    Ever since this Corona virus thing started I’ve been searching for how I can get something good out of this mess. I want to learn something I didn’t know, something I didn’t know about myself and about others.

  • Memorial Day

    Memorial Day

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    Did you know that almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea and more than 100,000 were wounded and it wasn’t even called a war at all when it was going on? It was called a “Police Action.”  More than 5.7 million Americans served during the Korean War that began in 1950 and ended in…

  • Retirement?

    Retirement?

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    Can you even imagine?  I’ve been retired from the railroad for over 37 years now. Haven’t really worked a day since then, 1983. . When you are doing something, you really love to do, I figure, it isn’t really work although I admit that I have put in some eighteen hour and twenty-hour days.