A Marine’s Letter Home Paul Keaveney, of Smyrna Beach, Florida, served in Vietnam as a Lance Corporal with the 3rd Force Recon Company, First Marine Division. In February of 1970, during a patrol in the A Shau Valley, he and his fellow Marines ended up in a firefight with NVA. For his actions that
Finding Meaning in Veterans’ Stories Anthropologist and Veteran Charles O. Warner III Is Sounding Reveille to Gather Veterans So They Can Connect, Heal, Educate, and Inspire VBC delegation gather at the “Museum of the Homeland War Karlovac-Turanj” near Zagreb, Croatia (Warner – 2024) Stories surround us. From the bar at the local
Written by Todd DePastino In the US, to pose the question is to invite this answer: A veteran is someone who wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount up to and including their life. The “blank check” quip is not the full story, of course, but
Officers skylarking on deck, during the Great White Fleet's World cruise, 1908. They appear to be participating in a wheelbarrow race, possibly during 4th of July shipboard games. Collection of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, Jr., 1928. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Written by Todd DePastino Vietnam Navy veteran Donn Nemchick
Written by Bob Von Bargen I want to commend you on the superb presentation regarding “Masters of the Air” that you facilitated on Greatest Generation Live on October 10. I was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean and desperately wanted to add to the conversation regarding the airmanship cited in Harry Crosby’s recount
Written by Bob Von Bargen It was just another cargo mission in “Old Shaky.” The C-124’s engines roared as we climbed to altitude from Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico. We were enroute to Panama with an oversized load of artillery pieces for the U.S. Army in the Canal Zone. The Howitzer canons were lashed
