Tonight's guest, 99-year-old Bob Miller, joined the Navy before Pearl Harbor and spent the next six years serving on 11 different ships. From the Jr. Naval Reserve, which he joined at age 13, Bob then entered the real Navy with Boot Camp at Newport, Rhode Island, in early 1941. Bob started service on the
We talk with Iraqi Interpreter (now US Marine) Mike Azad, Iraq War veteran and Marine Corps infantry officer Jeff Phaneuf, and Special Forces Officer LTC Doug Livermore. All are leaders of No One Left Behind (NOLB), the veterans-founded nonprofit that rescues interpreters and their families from Iraq and Afghanistan. If you watched the State
Bring your questions and curiosity to this conversation about our VBC trip to Vietnam. Even if you don’t plan to travel with us in November, you’ll still learn a lot about the country, the people, and what VBC Travel looks like. How should I pack? What’s the food like? What will we see? How
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
