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Last week, we were honored to have ARVN veteran Chieu Le come and tell his story of where he was during the Fall of Saigon....
By Todd DePastino (UPI) One of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War, and the most iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon, is...
By Glenn Flickinger The US Army Was Puny: When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the US Army consisted of 190,000 enlisted men and...
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. US Coast Guard veteran Amanda Doughty grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida and recalls her father...
by Harry Miller, WWII Veteran Harry Miller joined us April 19 and shared the story about how his 740th Tank Battalion captured an elusive and...
By Todd DePastino The third Monday of the month is a big holiday in Massachusetts. The kids have a day off school, the Red Sox...
During our virtual breakfast last Wednesday morning, we talked with John Krul of the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, which saw the...
Join Us Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00pm on Zoom for a Discussion of the MGM classic, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)!           Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
On Monday night, April 19 at 7:00pm, we will welcome two WWII veterans, 99-year-old Phil Horowitz in Florida and 92-year-old Harry Miller in Manchester, PA....
By Jim Lutz Tachikawa, Japan, in the spring of 1957, was the wettest place on earth. It rained non-stop for weeks at a time. Everything...
Almost two years after she moved from Pittsburgh to Franklin, Tennessee, Jean Link has joined us again for our Veterans Breakfast Club events, this time...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower during the President’s News Conference, April 7, 1954 On April 7, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower  answered a press conference reporter’s question...