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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...
For over forty years, wounded Vietnam veteran Tommy Clack has kept up-to-date one-page data sheets accounting for the all the KIA, MIA, WIA, and captured...
With the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US Army was in sudden need of skilled tradesmen from across the labor market. Blacksmiths and...
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive Simon Ramos came into this world in 1932, one of twelve siblings. His childhood playground, all 566,000...
James Edward Hanger (Library of Congress) The first amputation of the Civil War came at the hands of a 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regimental Surgeon...
by Dana DelBianco (US Air Force) The Convair B-36 was a remarkable aircraft. But anyone with an even vague idea of what an airplane looks...
Todd DePastino “Contrabands,” escaped slaves enlisted in the Union Army, 1861-1865(courtesy Library of Congress) The Civil War ended slavery. But it didn’t do so everywhere,...
(American Legion) (American Legion) I somehow missed this an old news item about the discovery of a Vietnam War memorial outside of Philadelphia in Chadds...
It was originally called Decoration Day, and it was always May 30. Until 1971, what we call Memorial Day fell invariably on May 30, a...
