The Veterans Breakfast Club (VBC) is the nation’s premier non-profit for connecting veterans with their fellow Americans through inspiring stories of service. We’re the place where veterans can share what they’ve seen and done—and where everyone can listen and learn.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Join the Veterans Breakfast Club for a FREE VBC breakfast at the Cranberry Elks Lodge #2249 on Friday, May 29 at 8:30am. Please RSVP for this free breakfast event by calling 412-623-9029 or emailing betty@veteransbreakfastclub.org.
Everyone is welcome, veterans and non-veterans alike, and breakfast will be provided free of charge courtesy of the Veterans Breakfast Club and our hosts at the Cranberry Elks Lodge #2249.
We’ll have our usual fast-moving and wide-ranging program with plenty of participation, stories, laughter, and conversation. Veterans of different eras and branches of service will share memories and reflections from their time in uniform—and often from life before and after service as well.
Breakfast begins at 8:30am. At 9:00am, we start the program. For the next 90 minutes, veterans share slices of their service experience. You never know what you’re going to hear, and there are always new faces and new stories around the table.
Please RSVP by calling 412-623-9029 or emailing betty@veteransbreakfastclub.org.
Event Details:
Friday, May 29, 2026
8:30am–10:30am
Cranberry Elks Lodge #2249
20720 Route 19
Cranberry Township, PA 16066
Thank you to our event sponsors: Aetna, HomeInstead, and VITAS!
Join the Veterans Breakfast Club for a special livestream screening of Tribute to Our Fallen Brothers, an 80-minute documentary created by members of the United States Military Academy Class of 1966. The film tells the story of a West Point class shaped by war, following their journey from cadets in 1962 through the Vietnam War and beyond—with a solemn focus on the classmates they lost.
In Vietnam, these young officers faced a brutal baptism by fire. Many became platoon leaders or company commanders, responsible for leading men in deadly jungle warfare against a highly motivated and elusive enemy. Of the 579 graduates of the Class of 1966, at least 29 graduates were killed in Vietnam, along with additional former classmates, and one lost later in Korea. This film brings their stories forward through firsthand reflections, memory, and a lifelong commitment to remembrance.
Following the screening, stay with us for a live conversation and Q&A featuring members of the Class of 1966, family members, and others connected to the film. Together, we’ll reflect on the making of the documentary, the enduring bonds of the Long Gray Line, and what it means to honor the fallen “in perpetuity.”
This program continues a years-long effort by the Class of 1966 to preserve the memory of their fallen brothers, including the creation of a legacy endowment at West Point that ensures future generations remember their names and stories.
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The Veterans Breakfast Club (VBC) is the nation’s premier non-profit for connecting veterans with their fellow Americans through inspiring stories of service.
Our goal is to build a nation that understands and values the experiences of our military veterans so that every day is Veterans Day.
We do this by bringing together–in-person and online–men and women from all walks of life, all ages and eras, and every branch of service to talk about what they’ve seen and done. We want to hear how people’s military service has shaped them. “Every Veteran Has a Story” is our slogan. We want to hear every one.
We share the stories we hear in our weekly VBC Bulletin email newsletter and our quarterly VBC Magazine. We also record a weekly podcast, The Scuttlebutt, about military culture from the people who lived it.
We do all this because we believe the best way to thank a Veteran is to listen.
Listening is what the VBC has been doing for the past 15 years, when we held our first small event outside of Pittsburgh. Since then, we’ve held over 1,000 programs in-person and online and have welcomed over 20,000 different people at our events, Veterans and non-Veterans coming together to listen.
We value every veteran’s experience, no matter who they are or when or how they served. We’ve seen up close the power of storytelling, as the memories shared at VBC events connect, heal, educate, and inspire an ever-expanding circle of listeners.
THE VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT
Preserving veterans’ stories so that this living history is never forgotten.
We pair passionate VBC volunteers with military veterans for one-on-one oral history interviews over Zoom. If you are a veteran, or you know a veteran, who would be interested in sharing his or her story with us, let us know. If you are someone interested in conducting these interviews, please reach out!
At any given event, you might hear from the newest members of Space Force to a 101-year-old World War II veteran.
We’ve welcomed Tin Can Sailors and Montford Point Marines, Vietnam Sky Soldiers and Cold War intelligence officers. We’ve heard stories from the Horn of Africa to Antarctica, the Bering Sea to Diego Garcia, and all points in between.
LORAN Coast Guardsmen and Radar Station Airmen have told us about serving in some of the most remote places on earth.
Korean War veterans have borne witness to their “forgotten war.”
Other “forgotten warriors” shared their memories of Beirut, Grenada, and Mogadishu.
Some of the first women authorized for combat shared stories of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of the Purple Hearts they received.
