We welcome back Museum Curator Mike Kraus and Collections Manager Lisa Petitta from Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum for another tour through the museum’s fascinating artifacts. Soldiers & Sailors is the largest veterans memorial in the US and a local treasure here in Pittsburgh. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health! Simulcast to Facebook
WWII veteran Bob Freligh joins us for a special event on the Battle of Leyte Gulf with famous author Ian Toll. Bob served as an Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13), flying from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, CV-13. On October 24, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, he and
John Mitchell, Rick Rogala, Stu Russell, and Earl Phares were captured by North Korea in 1968 and held for 11 months as POWs. They join us again with Jack Cheevers, author of "Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo." Also joining us is retired Navy Commander
Under Secretary of the VA Dr. Steven Lieberman leads the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the largest integrated health system in the nation overseeing the care of 9 million Veterans. He’ll gives us an update on what’s going on at the VA and take questions from you. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health! Simulcast to Facebook
Special Women’s History Month VBC Happy Hour with Army CW5 (Ret.) Phyllis Wilson, President of the Military Women’s Memorial and Army MSG (Ret.) Elizabeth Helm-Frazier, Board member of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health! Simulcast to Facebook and YouTube.
Jack Barsky shares his stranger-than-fiction story tonight. To everyone, Jack appeared as a mild-mannered computer programmer. But in truth, he was a Russian “Illegal”—among the most elite and secretive of KGB agents living undercover in the US (and made famous by the FX network’s spy drama, The Americans). Meet Jack and hear his story
