By Todd DePastino Last night, Ben Wright, Larry Woods, and I all walked out of the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh together after our 70th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement Commemoration event. As we filed from the elevator through the first-floor Great Hall, we passed a much-treasured artifact from World War II:
David and Margaret White’s new book, "Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly" tells the incredible story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible.Glenn Flickinger and guest co-host
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
Written by Todd DePastinoThe image above is the first known of Uncle Sam, symbol of the US federal government, published in the New York Lantern on March 13, 1852. It would take over another half-century for Sam to blossom fully into star-spangled glory. How Uncle Sam came to be and how he changed says much
Thank you to Vietnam Veteran and Tin Can Sailor Carl Rectenwald for passing along this information. Under the Mission Act passed by Congress and signed into law in 2018, veterans enrolled in the VA health care system can be treated in urgent care facilities without an appointment at no cost. Urgent care facilities like
Iwo Jima Landing in Color.mov from TanSideOut on Vimeo. Join author Steven McCloud for a ground-breaking look at the color film footage of the landings at Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945. McCloud is the author of BLACK DRAGON: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company, published by Texas A&M University, and is the CEO
