VBC Scuttlebutt Open Conversation poses the question: does the term "combat veteran" demean the service of "rear echelon" soldiers, sailors, and Marines? Author and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson thinks it does. Leepson published an article in Vietnam magazine in 2019, recently reprinted on Vietnam War website cherrieswriter.com, titled "What Did You Do in Vietnam?" Leepson
Join us for a FREE VBC breakfast at Ridgecrest Senior Living in McCandless on Thursday, October 10 at 8:30am. Please RSVP for this free breakfast event by calling 412-623-9029 or emailing betty@veteransbreakfastclub.org. Everyone is welcome, veterans and non-veterans, and the breakfast will be provided for free courtesy of Ridgecrest Senior Living. We plan our usual
We welcome journalist Jeanne McKinney to shine a light on a little-known episode of the war in Afghanistan that illuminates the larger political, social, and military landscape of our longest war. Jeanne's book, Triumph Over the Taliban: The Untold Story of US Marines’ Courageous Fight to Save Camp Bastion, tells the story of September 12,
Come to our live, in-person breakfast in Sewickley, PA. We meet at Christ Church Grove Farm (249 Duff Rd, Sewickley, PA 15143). You’ll walk in, pick up your name badge, pay $15 if you plan to eat (no cost for those who don’t), and meet others who are there to hear and share the
Join us in Bethel Park, PA, for a VBC storytelling event where you’ll meet a remarkable collection of people, each with a story to tell. Our breakfast location in Bethel Park, PA, is our largest, where the group can reach over 250 people. Our veteran attendees range from WWII and Korean War through the Post-9/11
Historians Greg Yoest and Todd DePastino lead a conversation about the Electoral College, our US system for selecting the Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States. The Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 decided created the oddball, one-of-a-kind, Electoral College as a way of NOT having one national election where the people vote for
