By Will Mears Two recent Veterans Breakfast Club programs have featured veterans of the Army Security Agency (ASA) whose work was important and behind-the-scenes. Their job was, among other things, to intercept, decode, and interpret enemy communications in real time. It was painstaking, highly technical work, carried out under strict secrecy. And yet, as
By Todd DePastino As I circulated at our Veterans Breakfast at the Town and Country Diner in Bordentown, New Jersey, Dimitry Olhovsky caught my eye. White hair, piercing blue eyes, a Slavic accent, and “U.S. Air Force” on his name badge. That combination told me he had a story to tell. Dimitry was born
Mess Management Specialist 2nd Class Williams Hendrickson scans for mines from the bow of the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) during an Earnest Will convoy mission in which tankers are led through the waters of the Gulf by U.S. naval ships (USN) The US is now at war with Iran, but
By Jim Cardillo, USMC, Vietnam, 1967-68 In March 2025, I had the rare privilege of visiting the island of Iwo Jima with my brother for the 80th Reunion of Honor. Only a limited number of visitors are permitted on the island one day each year for this solemn occasion. As the nation marks the
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of journalists covered the conflict, filing dispatches and photographs that shaped how Americans understood the war. Among them were a small but determined group of women who traveled the same roads and faced many of the same dangers of the servicemembers they covered.Two documentary filmmakers are now working to tell
The Veterans Breakfast Club mourns the passing of Major General William M. Matz, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.), a soldier who emerged from childhood paralysis to the highest levels of command and service. We learned of his death from our friend Rich Sherman, who wrote that General Matz passed away in Florida from lung damage
