For the fourth consecutive year, the Veterans Breakfast Club will gather on March 29—Vietnam Veterans Day to remember the war and the generation who fought it. The official federal commemoration period (2015-2025) has ended, but the VBC believes the stories must continue. This day is not about politics or arguments of the past; it is about people—those who served from the earliest advisory missions to the final days in Saigon, and the families who carried the weight at home.
The program will combine history and first-hand testimony. We’ll have some history shared by the Veterans Breakfast Club and Heinz History Center staff, followed by veterans sharing memories from the Advisory Era before 1965 through the major combat years across I Corps at the DMZ to IV Corps in the Mekong Delta and through “Vietnamization” after 1969.
Our goal is simple: to hear from every branch, every region of the war, and every kind of service—grunts and Marines, Airmen and Sailors, nurses and support troops and personnel of all sorts. These stories remind us why March 29 matters: it marks the day in 1973 when the last American combat troops left Vietnam, a homecoming that for too many came without welcome.
Join us for an afternoon of remembrance, conversation, and community as we continue the work of saying what should have been said long ago: Welcome home.
Doors Open at 1:30pm. Guests may tour the museum and open exhibit spaces. Refreshments and socializing in Mueller Center on the 5th Floor. Program begins at 2:00pm.
Please RSVP to betty@veteransbreakfastclub.org or 412-623-9029
Parking: Parking is best at the Eleventh & Smallman Lot located at 1101 Smallman St. across the street from the History Center and next to the Hampton Inn. Rates are usually $5, though sometimes they raise it for special events.
