VBC Blog

By Donn Nemchick The United Service Organizations (USO) established a tradition of sending comedian Bob Hope and a troupe of entertainers to Vietnam and other...

By Todd DePastino We want to share this wonderful Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame video about VBC veteran and retired Army Major Terri Swank. Terri...

By Todd DePastino Today, reading the Military Times, I learned that the fast-food chain Taco Bell is named after the founder, Glen Bell. I also...

The Rand Corporation has released its latest Summary of Veteran-Related Statistics with information gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey in 2023. The...

By Ed Fender The Vietnam War—officially a “Conflict,” since Congress never declared it—has been written about endlessly. Rather than re-analyze it, I set down my...

By Todd DePastino The First World War had barely begun when, on a frozen stretch of Belgium in December 1914, something extraordinary happened. Thousands of...

By Todd DePastino On November 3, 2025, Navy Corpsman Steve Giordano joined our Open Conversation livestream, and shared some of his story of serving aboard...

By Todd DePastino For more than thirty years, Vietnam veteran and artist Thomas Morrissey has been trying to build a proper Vietnam War memorial in...

By Todd DePastino Thanksgiving 1950. Huge snowstorm in Pittsburgh. “Mild Blizzard” in Chicago. And, in Korea, hope for a quick end to war. General Douglas...

By James Matsuoka If you find yourself driving on Route 66 in the high desert Colorado Plateau passing through Gallup, New Mexico, consider stopping at...

By Todd DePastino The release of the movie Nuremberg coincides with the 80th anniversary of the opening of the famous Nazi War Crimes trial on...

By Colonel (Ret.) Dr. Peter M. Tan We are pleased to announce that Army Colonel and VBC Member, Dr. Peter Tan was inducted into the...