By Don Wolfe One of the greatest gifts I took home from Vietnam was lifelong friendship. I want to tell you about one of those friends, George Rothnie. We met in the summer of 1968 at the Navy's Equipment Operators School in Davisville, Rhode Island. After training, we were separated for a year of
By Richard Berliner Richard Berliner's new book, A Different Journey: Vietnam 1965–1973 offers the rare perspective of an American civilian aid worker who lived, traveled, and worked alongside Vietnamese communities during the war. Richard served in Vietnam in 1966–67 as a volunteer with International Voluntary Services (IVS), making him a witness to war as
By Todd DePastino One of the most unforgettable moments of VBC StoryFest 2026 is coming to Morgantown, West Virginia. We hope you'll join us there! When we planned StoryFest, we chose to close the festival with Cody LeRoy Wilson's one-man play, Did My Grandfather Kill My Grandfather? It was a little risky because we'd
On June 11, 2026, the Veterans Breakfast Club celebrated a milestone nearly two decades in the making: the opening of its first-ever brick-and-mortar home.Located at 5850 Centre Avenue in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood, the new VBC Welcome Center gives the organization a permanent place where veterans, family members, students, and community members can gather, share
By Daria Sommers We're grateful to Aspects of History for allowing this re-post of Daria's article about the history behind her novel. The piece first appeared on the Aspects of History website.I’m frequently asked how much of my novel Sawadika American Girl is drawn from real life. A work of historical fiction, it is
By Jack Cheevers Jack Cheevers is the author of Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, winner of the 2014 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. He worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for twenty-seven years, including stints at the Los Angeles Times, The
