Written by John JC Miller What cadet didn't want to become a pilot after graduation? I didn't. How that came about makes for a somewhat unusual story. In telling it, I offer a couple of lessons learned from my cadet days and later in Core Values as taught there: Integrity first. Service before self.
Written by Bob Morabito This weekend, The Wall That Heals—a traveling, 3/4-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.—is coming to Shaler Township, Pennsylvania. Whether you served, lost someone who did, or just lived through the Vietnam years, visiting this wall is a powerful, sobering experience. Below are reflections of VBC Member
The Nguyen family in Saigon, March, 1975. Eva (Truc) is held by her father. (Eva Nguyen Whitfield) by Jason Nulton and Eva Nguyen Whitfield If not for their sons being in the same Boy Scout troop, Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel Jason Nulton might never have heard his neighbor Eva Nguyen
The Final Days of South Vietnam, March-April 1975. (USA) by Todd DePastino In 1973, after the ceasefire of January 27 and the departure of the last remaining US combat troops on March 29, North Vietnam decided to play the long game. The country had been torn apart and its forces routed in
Joe Boscia with his South Vietnamese counterparts, 1968. (Joe Boscia) Joseph Boscia, Captain, US Army, Vietnam 1968-69 I was thunderstruck on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, when someone came into my office in Philadelphia and told me Saigon had fallen. “All that blood. All that treasure. Both ours and the Vietnamese people’s,” I
President Ford meets with Graham Martin, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand, and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to discuss the situation in Vietnam, March, 1975. (National Archives) Written by Todd DePastino Saigon swelled with refugees as “Black April” 1975 ground toward
