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She never took her $73.13-a-month Veteran’s Pension. Helen Jackson sits with portrait of her husband, a Civil War Veteran. Image from cherryblossomfest.com Until three years...
@Smag94_ is the account of Sarah M., who has a lot of cool TikTok videos about Basic Training and Drill Sergeant life. Here is one...
The Story of Eugene Ely, the First Navy Test Pilot Ely at Tanforan Racetrack shortly before takeoff. Note the football helmet on his head and...
Image from the Marine Corps Times. Dorothy “Dot” Schmidt Cole died on January 7 in her North Carolina home at age 107. She was the...
Image from Smithsonian Magazine. Two years ago, Smithsonian Magazine published a great map put together with painstaking research of US military activities in 80 countries...
Donut Dollies image from coffeeordie.com I’ve decided my favorite branch of service are the Donut Dollies, nickname for the American Red Cross’s Supplemental Recreational Activities...
From The Atlantic: A destroyed Iraqi tank rests near a series of oil-well fires during the Gulf War, on March 9, 1991, in northern Kuwait....
. . BioMoreBio https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ruth-appleton.mp3 We heard Ruth Appleton’s story about her service as a U.S. Marine in May of 2017 at Memorial Park Church in...
A Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank moves across the desert during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm. Image via https://nara.getarchive.net This week...
There’s been much discussion at our VBC events lately about the VA’s COVID-19 vaccination program. Officially, the VA is only vaccinating veterans who: ...
Sky Swirl – Marines prepare to bed down for the night after live-fire training at Fort Pickett, Va., July 18, 2020. This photo was created...
We all get bombarded with email forwards of jokes, cat videos, and political rants. Usually, we delete without reading. But one forward recently came my...
