The Veterans Breakfast Club and Heinz History Center welcomed Pulitzer Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger, who discussed his new book that John Grisham says is “destined to become a classic,” The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the
It’s hard to imagine a more eventful life than the one lived by music legend and Vietnam Veteran Billy Terrell. Desperately poor, Billy dropped out of school to support his family by waiting tables in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He taught himself how to play guitar, began performing, got discovered, and landed in New
We join in conversation with four remarkable Vietnam veterans from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina who wrote their stories in prose and poems and healed from the trauma of war. John T. Hoffman, Army helicopter pilot, Ed Norris, Marine, Robert West, 25th Infantry Division, and Carl Ziperer, Army helicopter pilot, all served in
Watch this special Veterans Breakfast Club Vietnam Veterans Day 50th Anniversary Livestream Event held on March 29, 2023 at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA. At this event, we honored over 330 Vietnam War Veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at any time during the period
For the 50th Anniversary of the final return of US troops from Vietnam, the Veterans Breakfast Club with filmmaker Holly Million and VetStreamTV hosted the world streaming premiere of its documentary, A Permanent Mark: Agent Orange in American and Vietnam. We followed the screening with a conversation about the film and about the ravages
Join host Glenn Flickinger for a special conversation with France-based author Gwenn Strauss about her new best-selling book, The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany. The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine
