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The Veterans Breakfast Club is all about storytelling—“living history”—but as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we thought we’d reach back...
In late February, the VBC, in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators, held its first annual StoryFest in Santa Monica, California. During this three-day storytelling festival, attendees...
By Todd DePastino As a historian drawn to veterans’ stories, I sometimes indulge a private daydream. One morning at a Veterans Breakfast Club gathering, just...
A Black Soldier in the Continental Army Boyrereau Brinch, later known as Jeffrey Brace, was born in West Africa around 1742, kidnapped as a teenager,...
James Thatcher “On that sad day how many hearts were wrung!” Army surgeon James Thacher, experienced unexpected heartbreak as he watched the army disband at...
By Todd DePastino In 1864, the American Experiment was on the brink of extinction as the Civil War tore the country apart. That same year,...
By Todd DePastino Baron von Steuben and the Making of a Real Army America has a long tradition of the “citizen-soldier.” The concept is like...
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....
