by Todd DePastino This Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will track Santa Claus’s progress around the globe, as it has since 1955. That was the year Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup received a misdirected phone call from a child looking for Santa. It began with a Sears
by Mark Gleeson Many thanks to WWII Merchant Marine veteran Mark Gleeson for submitting this story about an embarrassing incident in Boot Camp.My mother was a schoolteacher with many “Thou Shalt Nots.” Thou shalt not be late. Thou shalt not forget to study. Thou shalt not get bad grades. Woe unto those who
Many thanks to the 6th graders at Jefferson Middle School in Mt. Lebanon, PA, for raising $1,000 for the VBC through their World War II education project. They not only learned about the war but also about the sacrifices and service of veterans generally. And they wrote
Susan Kee, a historian and tireless advocate of Korean War veterans, sent a moving email the other day with a 6-minute behind-the-scenes Military Times video of the renovations being done on the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. The centerpiece of the construction is a new Wall of Remembrance, which will
If you’re a service member or veteran with student loan debt, you may be in luck. A federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF) that originally forgave few loans has been revamped to include more people. Complaints of veterans prompted the Department of Education to rewrite the rules to “restore the promise”
Aboard the battleship USS California, Dec 7, 1941. The time: 7:55am. Wayne Shelnutt was nursing a hot cup of coffee after breakfast when someone screamed, “What is that airplane doing up there?” Wayne walked a few steps to the door and looked up. A plane with a big red ball painted on
