← BACK TO VBC BLOG Why the B-17 Flying Fortress Was Safer Than the B-24 Liberator by Todd DePastino “What a marvelous plane that was and beautiful to fly.” That’s what WWII B-17 pilot Tom Wiley said to us once at a VBC breakfast several years ago. Tom was

That was Navy vet Derek Sasone’s response to watching this clip Brig. Gen. Doug Satterfield talking on VBC Happy Hour on January 3. We got a lot of comments on the life lessons Doug shared from his 40-year Army career in which he rose from private to a one-star. Here are Derek’s

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