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United Airlines Flight 175 hits the World Trade Center’s south tower, September 11, 2001. (Public domain) By Todd DePastino On September 11, 2001, nineteen young...
By Bob Von Bargen Few veterans today remember the phrase “purple suit.” I was reminded of that recently after giving a presentation on the origins...
By Todd DePastino For many of us, September 11, 2001, remains a vivid personal memory. We remember where we were when we heard the news....
By Todd DePastino On December 17, 1944, hundreds of American bombers crossed Central Europe on a mission against Nazi Germany’s synthetic fuel industry. One of...
By Jay Lacklen By 1976, Air Force pilot Jay Lacklen had spent years flying one of the largest and most demanding aircraft in the U.S....
By Todd DePastino Somewhere out there are 35 Marines who enlisted together on a summer evening at the old Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota, almost...
The Berlin Airlift lasted only fifteen months, from June 1948 to September 1949, yet it changed the course of modern history. It demonstrated that the...
By Brad Washabaugh Few problems of modern warfare are more agonizing than friendly fire. Getting wounded or killed by the enemy is one thing. But...
By Bill Mayhue, LTC (Ret.) Military humor is unique, and few things inspire more jokes that the huge compendia of jargon that the branches of...
By Donn Nemchick The Veterans Breakfast Club is proud to congratulate our youngest VBC member, Henry Schoepke, on his graduation from high school in Wisconsin....
By Todd DePastino One of the pleasures of running the Veterans Breakfast Club is discovering other people like us who have spent years building communities...
By John DeBarber Peter DeBarber recently sent us this brief memoir of his WWII Navy veteran father, John DeBarber. Like many veterans of World War...
