Roger Fetters Named Veteran Of The Month
WARSAW — The Kosciusko Commissioners meeting began today, Tuesday, April 5, by honoring Roger Fetters, of Syracuse, as veteran of the month.
Fetter graduated from Wolf Lake High School, Noble County, and went to work at Dana Corporation, Syracuse, before enlisting in the Army Sept. 27, 1955, and served his country until he was honorably discharged July, 2, 1958. He took his basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He was in Company C-86, Recon Battalion. Fetters advanced training at Fort Leonard Wood in Company B-92 AIr CCB Armored Engineer Battalion.
March 1956, Fetters went to Fort Campbell, Ky., with the 101st Airborne and was assigned to Company A 326th Combat Engineering Battalion. He was in that unit until 1958 as an instructor and had 37 jumps. From there Fetters went into the 27th Battalion. Fetters said of this experience, “I was very lucky, at my age and with all the jumps, I don’t have a bad back or bad knees.”
After Fetters was discharged from the Army he joined the Army Reserve Unit in Columbia City an then transferred to Fort Wayne. He left the reserves in 1959. That same year he married Darlene and had three children together; two sons: Roger Jr., and Bill; and daughter Jo Ellen, all of whom preceded him in death. Fetters said, “I was very lucky some of the guys I’d seen coming back from Korea were in bad shape and a lot of it was nerve problems, a lot was mental and physical, too. They had good care after they got out.”