Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Gus” Pagonis takes a rare break from running his 40-acre horse ranch to join our VBC Coffee Hour next week to talk about leadership and lessons learned from masterminding logistics for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990-1991.
Roland Glenn served as a platoon leader and company commander in the 7th Infantry Division in World War II. He saw his first combat in Okinawa, an experience that forever changed the kid from Western Pennsylvania. "I was in charge of leading about 200 soldiers, an enormous amount of responsibility for someone 20 years old.
. . Paul G. Zolbrod of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania was shipped off to the Army during the heart of winter, 1953. He was twenty, and like so many other young men during the 1950s, Mr. Zolbrod was drafted into a quietly raging military conflict on the Korean peninsula. Some call it The Forgotten
. . Al Zimmerman was still in high school when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and he still remembers people screaming about what had happened and listening to the radio for more information. He had an older brother stationed at Hickam Field in Hawaii, and unlike today it took several weeks for
. . Ron Worstell was drafted into the Army after dropping out of college in March 1968. He was shipped to Vietnam in September 1968. After several patrols, he asked for the job of radio operator, which required him to haul a 26-pound radio pack on missions with the First Infantry
. . Rick Witherell of Tionesta, Pennsylvania served in the Army at the end of the Cold War, but when his reserve unit was called up during the Gulf War, he deployed to Kuwait. Despite being the first day of spring 2014, it snowed the day we preserved the stories of
