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The Marine Corps as we know it was born in WWII under the guiding vision of powerful generals you’ve probably never heard of. Historians David...
Researchers reviewed records of more than 2.5 million post-9/11 veterans and found almost 4,000 more of them had died than researchers expected. Many deaths were due to...
by Todd DePastino By February 1946, 42-year-old American diplomat George Kennan had spent almost half his life abroad. He’d started in the US Embassy in...
Thank you to John Petrus for giving us this visual tour he created of an exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum of the masterpieces recaptured...
No one “lands” on an aircraft carrier, the saying goes. They only “crash” in a controlled manner. On January 24, a F-35C Lightning II had...
Pravda photo of Stalin giving his Bolshoi Theatre speech on February 9, 1946 by Todd DePastino On February 9, 1946, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin delivered...
Check out highlights from last week’s members-only VBC Jeopardy Night! The winners had us surprised (and impressed)! Want access to events like these? Become a...
In December 1992, 1,800 United States Marines arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead Operation Restore Hope. Brad Graft was one of those Marines. Hear him...
Tonight, we remember Tet with Vietnam veterans who served during 1968. Tet should be remembered like Pearl Harbor or 9/11—as a world-changing event and turning...
We mark International Holocaust Remembrace Day, the 77th anniversary of Auschwitz’s Liberation, with Scott Masters and Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Pinchas was...
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Gus” Pagonis takes a rare break from running his 40-acre horse ranch to join our VBC Coffee Hour next week to...
News from Ukraine, which is bracing for an attack of 100,000 Russian troops massed at its border, made me think of the Ukrainian veterans who...
