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WWII Navy WAVE Julia Parsons will turn 104 years old on March 2, 2025. Please help us celebrate and honor her by sending her a...
by Bill Spanos Before Vietnam Veteran Bill Spanos served as a US Army advisor to the South Vietnamese Army, he was a member of “The...
by Todd DePastino D-Day Veteran Warren Goss yesterday told a group of us that he still carries a letter his mother wrote to him in...
by Jo Ann Bennett We received the following from a VBC Magazine reader who served as a nurse in Philadelphia. Jo Ann’s father was both...
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...
