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
Andrew McCaffrey with two of his children. (The McCaffrey Family) By Matt Cahill Matt Cahill is the Founder and Executive Chair of Green Star Families. A retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class and medic, he served with the 101st Airborne Division and later in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. He holds a
By Nate Webster Nate Webster grew up in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from West Point in 2011. He commissioned as an infantry officer and served with the 101st Airborne, later becoming a Special Forces officer with deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and locations across Africa. Nate is a recipient of the Pat Tillman Foundation Scholarship
The wars that followed September 11, 2001, produced a generation of Americans whose lives were shaped by events that began on a single morning and unfolded over two decades. The Veterans Breakfast Club Veterans History Project has recorded hundreds of interviews with veterans and military family members. The excerpts that follow are drawn from those
