About twenty-five years before I was born in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania another Tom Fleeger was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His nickname was “The Fleeg.” Mine was “The Flig.” (In Slippery Rock people pronounced our name as though it were spelled “Fligger.”) That Tom Fleeger wrote a book entitled, “Fidel and the Fleeg” that chronicled a trip that he and a buddy made to Havana, Cuba after their high school graduation. As the name implies the Fleeg got hooked up with Fidel Castro before he took control of the government - when he was just a young man with revolutionary thoughts. The book title prompted me to adapt it to some of my stories like, “The Corvette and the Flig”, ROTC and the Flig”, and “Jesus Christ and the Flig”, etc.
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