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By Todd DePastino It’s the question of the day: why does President Trump want the United States to own Greenland? President Trump may be singular...
Q&A with Author Wil Haygood By Daria Sommers In his latest book, The War Within A War, author Wil Haygood lays bare the psychological burden...
Albert DeFazio somewhere in Italy, circa 1944-45. (Albert DeFazio) By Albert DeFazio World War II veteran Albert DeFazio, a Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient,...
When Americans think of World War II in Europe, they usually picture Normandy hedgerows or the frozen forests of the Battle of the Bulge. Italy,...
The United States in World War II had a big mail problem: there was too much of it. Old-fashioned hand-written letters flooded ship holds in...
On June 14 2025, the National Flag Foundation (NFF) presented an 8′ X 5′ American flag to representatives of the American Battle Monuments Commission at...
The Veterans Breakfast Club mails almost 12,000 copies of VBC Magazine every quarter directly to households and another 5,000 boxed up for hand distribution around...
By Todd DePastino Gil Ferrey became a minor Cold War cause célèbre in 1961 when he got caught, along with fellow college student Victor Pankey,...
The VBC would like to honor WWII U.S. Navy veteran Burton Lieberman on his 100th birthday on February 9 by inviting people to send Burton...
By Todd DePastino In March 1966, the war in Vietnam was expanding rapidly, and hundreds of thousands of American service members were preparing for deployment....
VBC Vietnam Veteran Sonny Hanlon was recently recognized for his 30 years of service to a wonderful Pittsburgh non-profit called Animal Friends. He’s come to...
We’re grateful to Barb Smith for introducing us to Art and Rose Gelbart, Holocaust survivors who joined our livestream on December 1, 2025. Barb wrote...
