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Show LLOYD MCCLEARY ugu t 28 2001 the United Nations organization. I didn t know anything about n ver attend d m ting . Anyway, I go in there and Boyer Jarvis introduces me to a lady who is th president, and she's going to introduce me as the speaker. Her name is lola Fellons. Well, a man by the name ofFellons was my battalion commander. And I had nothing to say. You know, so I said, "Well, that's an interesting name, Fellons. You wouldn't happen to know my old battalion commander?" And suddenly her face changes and she says, "I was Mrs. Fellons." Well then what do you say? You know, it's forty years- is he dead? Is he divorced and now he's a general off some place? What happened? So I'm trying to say something kind and nice and so on, and she starts to cry. And she says, "He never recovered from Dachau." I said, "I was the heavy weapons company commander. I would be within fifty feet of this guy," of the battalion commander, "at all times," because I was the guy who placed the heavy machine guns and the mortars and all that. I was his artillery, basically. And so she said, "At night he would wake up screaming. Nightmares. He vomited every time he smelled pork cooking. He was in an out of mental institutions. He tried to commit suicide twice. And he finally died in 1967." And she didn't tell me how. You know, she didn't tell me if he actually committed suicide or not. I'm pretty sure I've got a picture of him in here. But he was maybe, he was a West Pointer, he was six or seven years older than I- so he wasn't an old man. He was 28, 29 years old, Lieutenant Colonel. 31 |
