written by Mary Klepper In Rogersville, Tennessee, is the Persia General Store, the kind of place where “if they don’t have it, you don’t need it.” It’s also the domain of Vicki Seay, who founded the store and has run it for almost 50 years. I walked in looking for Diet Peach Snapple (I
written by Carole Wagener A veteran’s letters are a rich source that can be mined for gold when writing their stories. Using these first-person accounts, the events of the time when they were written should be reasonably historically accurate. Many veterans wrote letters home to their sweethearts or their parents who saved them. Some
written by Todd DePastino Paul Mihalic (Paul & Karen Mihalic) On our September 18 VBC Happy Hour with Joshua Jacobs, Under Secretary of the VA for Benefits, VBC Member Karen Mihalic shared the troubling story of her husband Paul, who served two tours in Vietnam as a USAF Air Commando with MACV-SOG—“Military
written by Todd DePastino One click from our Le Jardin Hotel & Spa in Hanoi, where our travel group arrived last week, is a neglected relic of French Indochina glory, the Long Bien Bridge. We caught a glimpse of it when we rode in from Noi Bai airport. The Long Bien Bridge is a
written by Bob Miller 99-year-old Bob Miller came on VBC Happy Hour back in April and shared his story about joining the Navy before Pearl Harbor and spending the next six years serving on 11 different ships. From the Jr. Naval Reserve, which he joined at age 13, Bob then entered the real Navy
written by Johnny Lang Last June, we had the immense pleasure of hosting a VBC Happy Hour with the inimitable Johnny Lang, an Army veteran who served with Elvis Presley and seemed to channel Elvis's extraordinary energy. Johnny’s new book, My Army Days with Elvis: Friendship, Football & Follies, tells of hijinks and warm
