Streamed live on August 22, 2024 We welcome journalist Jeanne McKinney to shine a light on a little-known episode of the war in Afghanistan that illuminates the larger political, social, and military landscape of our longest war. Jeanne’s book, Triumph Over the Taliban: The Untold Story of US Marines’ Courageous Fight to Save Camp

Streamed live on August 15, 2024 For the anniversary of the Fall of Kabul, we welcome Fakhriya Hashemi to the Scuttlebutt to share her family’s story of living in Afghanistan before, during, and after the Taliban. Fakhriya was an attorney in Kabul, working for a firm that did business with the U.S. Due to

Streamed live on August 19, 2024 Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and Afghanistan War veteran Mikael Cook joins us to talk about the August 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan. Mikael was a part of the #DigitalDunkirk team that saved thousands of Afghan allies who had been left behind. He was personally responsible for the evacuation

Streamed live on August 12, 2024 The C-130, missing its cargo door, was filled with hundreds of Vietnamese refugees, including the Nguyen family. Among them was three-year-old Truc Nguyen. Her father, Chau Tan Nguyen, a 40-year-old lieutenant colonel and C-130 pilot in the South Vietnamese Air Force, was determined to fly his family and

Streamed live on August 8, 2024 This World War II Open Conversation led by historians Todd DePastino and Glenn Flickinger starts with a discussion of the connections between World War I and World War II. Should they be considered one continuous conflict, a "Thirty Years' War"? Both wars are deeply interconnected in their causes

Streamed live on August 5, 2024 VBC Scuttlebutt takes on the controversial and sensitive issue of redefining what it means to be a "Gold Star Family." A Pentagon working group investigating whether the official definition should be broadened has shelved its report. Currently, Gold Star status is awarded to families of those who die