Written by Todd DePastino WWII veteran Guy Prestia passed away at 102 years old just hours before he was scheduled to share some stories with us at our breakfast in Sewickley, PA. In losing Guy, a treasured voice of the Veterans Breakfast Club has fallen silent. Even more, our nation has lost perhaps its
Written by Todd DePastino An army may march on its stomach, as Napoleon supposedly said, but it functions on its paperwork. Modern armies are large bureaucracies, and keeping track of who and what is where requires an army-within-an-army of clerks and record keepers. From 1912 to 1974, the US Army accounted for its personnel
Written by Lori S. Stewart Army WAC Vietnam veteran Pat Jernigan passed along this fascinating obituary of Doris "Lucki" Allen, written by Lori S. Stewart, Army historian at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICE) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Lori wrote this for the USAICE newsletter for July 28-August 3, 2024. Doris Allen
Written by Bob Connor VBC veteran Bob Connor served with the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam War and has been assisting the Vietnamese government with locating and identifying Vietnamese remains (as well as US remains) buried in unmarked mass graves throughout the country. The driving factor behind Bob's and other veterans' work is seeing
Written by Todd DePastino On March 13, 2023, the Veterans Breakfast Club held a special program in honor of Canine Veterans Day. Three veteran dog handlers shared their stories and talked about the history of working dogs in the military. March 13 marks the anniversary of the creation of the War Dog Program by
Written by Alan Krause In 2022, we posted an article about Frederick Hart’s Three Servicemen Statue which stands near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC–The Wall. The statue has a flaw noticed by many veterans: the soldier on the left carrying the M-60 machine gun on his shoulders has two bandoliers of ammunition
