VBC Blog

By Todd DePastino On January 12, 1962, the United States quietly crossed a threshold in the Vietnam War. What came to be known as Operation...

VBC veteran Jerry Augustine published harrowing accounts, with photos, of his service in 1966-1967 with B Company, 3rd Battalion,  21st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Infantry...

By Todd DePastino VBC member Sue Watson has let us know that Warrior Canine Connection (WCC) has named its latest service dog after our own...

By Donn Nemchick The United Service Organizations (USO) established a tradition of sending comedian Bob Hope and a troupe of entertainers to Vietnam and other...

By Todd DePastino We want to share this wonderful Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame video about VBC veteran and retired Army Major Terri Swank. Terri...

By Todd DePastino Today, reading the Military Times, I learned that the fast-food chain Taco Bell is named after the founder, Glen Bell. I also...

The Rand Corporation has released its latest Summary of Veteran-Related Statistics with information gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey in 2023. The...

By Ed Fender The Vietnam War—officially a “Conflict,” since Congress never declared it—has been written about endlessly. Rather than re-analyze it, I set down my...

By Todd DePastino The First World War had barely begun when, on a frozen stretch of Belgium in December 1914, something extraordinary happened. Thousands of...

By Todd DePastino On November 3, 2025, Navy Corpsman Steve Giordano joined our Open Conversation livestream, and shared some of his story of serving aboard...

By Todd DePastino For more than thirty years, Vietnam veteran and artist Thomas Morrissey has been trying to build a proper Vietnam War memorial in...

By Todd DePastino Thanksgiving 1950. Huge snowstorm in Pittsburgh. “Mild Blizzard” in Chicago. And, in Korea, hope for a quick end to war. General Douglas...