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Written by Todd DePastino All he did was give candy to children. But in doing so, Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen inadvertently launched one of the greatest...
written by Roger Housen On our March 6 VBC Happy Hour with Purple Heart Women Warriors, retired Belgian Army colonel, Roger Housen, spoke about why...
We’re grateful to Briana Smith at KDKA-TV Pittsburgh for her story about the Veterans Breakfast Club and the power of storytelling and story-listening. In this week’s...
Written by Todd DePastino Retired Navy captain and national security expert Jerry Hendrix recently published a must-read article in The Atlantic arguing that “the United States has...
Written by Todd DePastino March is Women’s History Month, something that would not have been possible during the Cold War, when Women’s Day, March 8,...
We’re happy to announce our Spring 2023 in-person program event schedule. This will be our 15th year of VBC storytelling breakfasts, where people of all backgrounds,...
The Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation has been working for years to establish a permanent memorial to the USA’s longest war on the National...
(Herwig Kavallar) Thanks to Nick Devaux from St. Lucia for passing along this joke. Nick’s excellent The Log Book Project is one of the most important...
Written by Beth Reuschel Military records researcher Beth Reuschel wanted to find out what her grandfather did in World War II. She started searching the records....
Written by Todd DePastino The image above is the first known of Uncle Sam, symbol of the US federal government, published in the New York...
written by Marilyn Walton WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, sent us a response to her viewing of Masters of...
Thank you to Vietnam Veteran and Tin Can Sailor Carl Rectenwald for passing along this information. Under the Mission Act passed by Congress and signed...
