← BACK TO VBC BLOG Why Was May 22 Chosen as Maritime Day? When Congress created Maritime Day in 1933 hardly anyone noticed. It was in the First Hundred Days of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and all eyes were upon the alphabet-soup of agencies rolling out

← BACK TO VBC BLOG The Vietnam Memorial Fact Sheet: 99 Things You Should Know About the Wall and the War For many years, National Park Service tour guide Allen McCabe has been producing the Vietnam Memorial Fact Sheet for anyone with an interest in the

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← BACK TO VBC BLOG Glenn Flickinger’s 12 Things to Know about the US Army in WWII (Borrowed Entirely from Rick Atkinson) By Glenn Flickinger The US Army Was Puny: When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the US Army consisted of 190,000 enlisted men

← BACK TO VBC BLOG  Post-9/11 Veteran Profile: Amanda Doughty, Coast Guard Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. US Coast Guard veteran Amanda Doughty grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida and recalls her father having one of the most hazardous jobs in the