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Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant man who, if he had felt free to pursue any profession he wanted, might have become the world’s leading mathematician....
by Todd DePastino Yesterday, I spent the best afternoon imaginable at The Residence in Bethel Park retirement community, where I met a wonderful 90-year-old man...
The world’s most useful tool was the brainchild of a Blue Star mother and WWII war plant worker from Illinois named Vesta Stoudt. Vesta had...
Todd DePastino Franz-Ferdinand’s Gräf & Stift at the Imperial War Museum, Vienna On June 28, 1914, a driver made a wrong turn in Sarajevo, and...
After the landing at Inchon, South Korea, on September 15, 1950, a patrol of ten SeaBees volunteered to go behind enemy lines and commandeer several...
Several years ago, WWII veteran George Herwig told a story at the Veterans Breakfast Club about turning out for physical training in 1943 at the...
In the wake of our conversation about returning Japanese WWII flags to families in Japan, Vietnam veteran Jim Roberts casually mentioned he used hoax souvenir...
One of our Vietnam Marines, Ren Bergman, sent this moving poem dedicated to Vietnam vets. My 18th birthday, January 31, 1968, was the first day...
Celebrate the Army Birthday with us! June 14 @ 7pm ET Colonial Americans disliked standing armies so much, they fought a war for two months...
← BACK TO VBC BLOG7 Things Vets Should Know About VA Loans with the hot housing market, more veterans may be looking to use their...
Let’s hear their stories. It was 73 years ago today that President Harry Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, allowing women to serve...
(Malcom Browne for AP) On one of our VBC trips to Vietnam, a sight at the Pagoda of the Celestial Lady in Hue stopped me...
