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Last week, we sent out 100 Welcome Home Boxes to Vietnam Veterans for our Vietnam Veterans Day Recognition. Next week, we plan to send out...
Todd’s note: April Fool’s Day is terrible for exceedingly gullible people like me. My wife tricks me every year. But I must admit the day...
The last three iterations, left to right, of the USAF uniform (U.S. Air Force photo / Airman 1st Class Spencer Tobler) Yesterday, the Air Force...
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Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. “Death, like a great eagle, flew over Vietnam and picked out its prey. What a waste.” –...
By Todd DePastino Thirty-two years ago, Congress designated March 25 as “Medal of Honor Day” to recognize those who have earned the highest decoration for...
Image from Royal Museums Greenwich Last Wednesday morning, Vietnam veteran Clem Blazewick asked our Navy vets why ships zig-zagged across the Atlantic in World War...
As told to Todd DePastino Julia Parsons is the last surviving codebreaker of World War II. On March 2, 2025, she will turn 104 years...
How Lt. Michael Blassie’s Remains Were Rescued from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Part II) By Pete Mecca Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story...
Historian Kelly Crager is director of Texas Tech’s Vietnam Center and Archive Oral History Project, but he’s also author of a fascinating book about “The...
In 1967, General William Westmoreland, head of the American war effort in Vietnam, ordered that all servicemen and women arriving in country be given a...
On this week’s Scuttlebutt, we talk about the Merchant Marine. Yes, it still exists. No, they aren’t military. And, heck no, don’t ever call them...
