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Fettig, Art

Art Fettig: Operation Feint

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It was mid October 1952 and I was an officer's records clerk in the 99th Field Artillery, a private first class on a Landing Ship Troops (LST)  headed towards North Korea. I didn't even suspect that we were taking part in a big U.N.task force of warships, planes, landing craft and troops making a feint attack in North Korea far behind the enemy lines. I didn't learn this much … [Read more...] about Art Fettig: Operation Feint

Art Fettig, “Pass it on!”

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A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners serving life sentences and then we would each gave a little speech and talked with prisoners privately.  I asked one prisoner why he was in prison and he told me he had … [Read more...] about Art Fettig, “Pass it on!”

Art Fettig, “The World At Our Fingertips”

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The other day I heard from a friend in Australia who reads this newsletter. It brought home to me the fact that with the Internet, the whole world is right there at our fingertips. I had an e-mail with photo attachments from a friend in China just two weeks ago. Until I went to the Far East to fight a war at the age of twenty-one, the farthest I had ever been from our home in … [Read more...] about Art Fettig, “The World At Our Fingertips”

Aspiring Speakers by Art Fettig

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My First Professional Speech I can remember the day I heard my first professional speaker giving a talk for our railroad group in Battle Creek, Michigan. His name was Herb True Ph.D. and that same day he put me on his team as a humor writer. That meeting changed my life. Many hundreds of times when I was out on the road giving speeches I was approached by members of the … [Read more...] about Aspiring Speakers by Art Fettig