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By Todd DePastino You may have heard the legend of Molly Pitcher, which first appeared in the 1830s as the nation was celebrating the last...
Military service is a transformative experience, no less today than it was during the American Revolution. What follows is a narrative journey tracing the experiences...
By Lew McDaniel My duty station was at Site 3, Teufelsberg, in West Berlin. Initially, I was an “operator” in the Pit. The Pit was...
By Will Mears Two recent Veterans Breakfast Club programs have featured veterans of the Army Security Agency (ASA) whose work was important and behind-the-scenes. Their...
By Todd DePastino As I circulated at our Veterans Breakfast at the Town and Country Diner in Bordentown, New Jersey, Dimitry Olhovsky caught my eye....
Mess Management Specialist 2nd Class Williams Hendrickson scans for mines from the bow of the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) during an Earnest Will...
By Jim Cardillo, USMC, Vietnam, 1967-68 In March 2025, I had the rare privilege of visiting the island of Iwo Jima with my brother for...
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of journalists covered the conflict, filing dispatches and photographs that shaped how Americans understood the war. Among them were a...
The Veterans Breakfast Club mourns the passing of Major General William M. Matz, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.), a soldier who emerged from childhood paralysis to...
By Rich Thurmond No two men fought the same Vietnam War. Each Marine, Soldier, Sailor, or Airman carried his own war on his back, shaped...
By Todd DePastino Below is one of the toughest first-person homecoming stories I’ve ever read. And it doesn’t come from an abused Vietnam Veteran or...
By Todd DePastino On February 23, 1945, five days into the Battle of Iwo Jima, a patrol of U.S. Marines raised an American flag atop...
