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PBS North Carolina’s “Comic Culture” recently featured a program on famed World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin. Host Terence Dollard discusses Mauldin’s career, life and...
By Bob Harbula Ninety-two-year-old Bob Harbula has shared his story at several Veterans Breakfast Club events and in our podcasts over the years. Historian Patrick...
By Todd DePastino Last night, Ben Wright, Larry Woods, and I all walked out of the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh together after our 70th...
Written by Todd DePastino When a city’s motto is Resurgam–Latin for “I shall rise again”–you can guess it’s seen tough times. That is true for...
Written by Todd DePastino It was hardly a speech. The 674 spoken words were more like “remarks.” But what remarks they were. On June 26,...
Written by Todd DePastino The Berlin Air Lift of 1948-1949 owed its enormous success not only to the skill, determination, and courage of its air...
Written by Brad Washabaugh VBC Board Member and retired Marine Corps Colonel Brad Washabaugh recently sent us a 30-question US flag etiquette trivia quiz that...
Written by Brad Washabaugh VBC Board Member and retired Marine Corps Colonel Brad Washabaugh recently a 30-question US flag etiquette trivia quiz that he crafted...
Written by Brad Washabaugh VBC Board Member and retired Marine Corps Colonel Brad Washabaugh recently a 30-question US flag etiquette trivia quiz that he crafted...
Written by Todd DePastino In 2009, when the VBC was just beginning, I visited a retirement community just east of Pittsburgh and met a man...
Written by Jack Reid VBC  Veteran Jack Reid of Plymouth, Mass., sent us the piece below after taking a recent “Road to Revolution” walking tour...
Written by Todd DePastino At the conclusion of our VBC Happy Hour on May 8 with Korean War veteran Bud Mendenhall, our resident historian Greg...