By James MatsuokaIf you find yourself driving on Route 66 in the high desert Colorado Plateau passing through Gallup, New Mexico, consider stopping at the Comfort Suites just east of the city. It’s a regular chain hotel, tucked behind a Denny’s and Dickey’s Barbeque Pit, but inside the lobby is a small museum dedicated
By Todd DePastino The release of the movie Nuremberg coincides with the 80th anniversary of the opening of the famous Nazi War Crimes trial on November 20. The movie is a historical drama based on Jack El-Hai’s book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting
By Colonel (Ret.) Dr. Peter M. Tan We are pleased to announce that Army Colonel and VBC Member, Dr. Peter Tan was inducted into the United States Veterans Hall of Fame, on November 8, just two days after receiving a similar honor from the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. Dr. Peter M. Tan, a
By Todd DePastino Every Marine celebrates the USMC's birthday on November 10. Some attend balls with cakes, swords and special messages from the Commandant and Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune. But the story of how that date became the Marine Corps’ official birthday is complicated. Not a simple matter of the Second Continental
By Kevin Horgan VBC Marine veteran from Atlanta, Kevin Horgan, is publishing his 6th book, CORPS TO CORPORATE, Your USMC Transition Made Simple, and it is available on Amazon November 1. The book is based on the stories and advice from 35 Marines Kevin served with back in the 1970s and 1980s. It's priced at $10, one
June 2025: D-Day veteran Warren Goss, age 100, reunites in Normandy with Simone Phillipe, age 96—the farm girl who hid him from a German patrol in 1944. by Glenn Goss In June 2025, 100-year-old D-Day veteran Warren Goss reunited with the French farm girl who had hidden him from a German patrol more than
