Category: Fettig, Art

  • 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.

  • A Mixed Bag–From Honky To Tonk

    A Mixed Bag–From Honky To Tonk

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    A Mixed Bag is a collection of songs by Art Fettig. It includes Country, Blues, Spirituals, Heavy Metal, Comedy, Jazz and some love songs that might be country but we can’t figure out which country. This CD might have been called “Songs to lift your spirits high” because you will laugh and cry and just…