Lioness - Trailer from ROCO Films on Vimeo. Join us on Women Veterans Day June 12 for a screening of the documentary Lioness about the first women sent into combat with US forces in 2003-2004. After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, filmmakers Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers tracked a group of Army soldiers who became known as Team
For the 79th anniversary of D-Day, Glenn Flickinger hosts a conversation about Operation Neptune, the naval component of Overlord, the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944. While images of soldiers struggling on the beaches are familiar to most of us, lesser understood is the role of the sailors aboard thousands of ships which delivered and
I often say, "You never know what you're gonna hear" at the Veterans Breakfast Club. But I truly didn't expect to hear Jim Phelps' harrowing story of survival when he came to our event at Christ Church in Bethel Park in August of 2019. “It was like being at the top of a building when
101st Airborne Division veteran Rick Weber calls the VBC "The Best Show in Town," and when I look at the photo above, I understand why. On the left is Kathy Silvia speaking at our breakfast at Christ Church at Grove Farm back on May 8, 2019. Kathy was a member of the first class at
Come to our live, in-person breakfast in Beaver, PA, and meet these two speakers pictured above. Jerry Fisher, left, joined the Navy to see the world and, of course, was shipped to California for shore duty. Larry Googins, right, was a weapons systems officer who flew 193 combat missions in an F4 fighter in Vietnam. These
