VBC Blog

by Todd DePastino We received a poignant note about last summer’s VBC Magazine issue, which contained Bob Podurgiel’s account of WWII veteran Santo Magliocca’s 22...

by Todd DePastino The Veterans Breakfast Club lost a member, and the world lost a hero with the passing of Tuskegee Airman, Harry Stewart at...

by Captain Emmett Evans, USNR (Ret.) Vietnam Donut Dolly Penni Evans sent us a note about our recent program with Nick Devaux and Lars McKie...

Donut Dolly Kathy Hoff in the patented powder blue ARC uniform in Vietnam (https://www.redcross.org) by Todd DePastino We talk a lot about Vietnam Red Cross...

by Ken Kaszak In the frigid chaos of the Battle of the Bulge’s end, First Sergeant Leonard A. Funk, Jr., performed an act of courage...

by Libbie Hegvik My parents met at Camp Eagle, Phu Bai, Vietnam, in 1969. My dad, Ben Thornal, was an Army helicopter pilot who had...

by Marilyn Walton WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, has generously shared her expertise with the VBC over the past...

by Todd DePastino Almost all the words we use when talking about the military derive from the French language. From attack, bastion, battalion, bomb, and...

The Department of Defense recently published its annual “Demographics Profile of the Military Community,” offering a comprehensive overview of the men and women serving in...

By Clem Blazewick In October 1966, I learned I’d be leaving Vietnam on December 15 for my next duty station, Camp Zama, Japan. When December...

By Todd DePastino Vietnam announced plans to build a $67 billion high-speed railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Ground will break...

By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has stories from scores of the battalion’s veterans. Some...