The Veterans Breakfast Club (VBC) is the nation’s premier non-profit for connecting veterans with their fellow Americans through inspiring stories of service. We’re the place where veterans can share what they’ve seen and done—and where everyone can listen and learn.
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Join the Veterans Breakfast Club for a special Veterans Day evening of food, fellowship, and storytelling at Saints John & Paul Church in Sewickley.
We’ll gather from 6:00–7:00pm for heavy hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, and conversation, followed at 7:00pm by a Veterans Breakfast Club storytelling program featuring veterans sharing their experiences of military service.
As always with the Veterans Breakfast Club, the emphasis will be on the stories: what veterans experienced, what they remember, and what they want others to understand about their service. Veterans of all eras, their families, and members of the community are welcome.
The event is free of charge, courtesy of the Saints John & Paul Veterans Committee.
Reservations are required. RSVP by calling 412-623-9029 or emailing JoAnn@veteransbreakfastclub.org.
Directions
Saints John & Paul is located at 2586 Wexford Bayne Road, Sewickley, PA 15143, near the Wexford/Franklin Park area. The event will be held in the Cardinal DiNardo Center (CDC) on the Saints John & Paul campus. Once you enter the church campus from Wexford Bayne Road, follow signs for the Cardinal DiNardo Center and event parking.
What: Veterans Breakfast Club Celebration
When: Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 8:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Sheraton Valley Forge | 480 North Gulph Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Who: Open to the Public | Veterans, Families & Friends Welcome
How much: FREE
Join us for a Veterans Breakfast Club storytelling breakfast on Saturday, November 14, 2026, from 8:30–10:30am—a warm, come-as-you-are morning of coffee, buffet breakfast, and true stories of military service.
A Veterans Information Fair before and after breakfast will include veterans organizations, nonprofits, and service providers with information and materials for veterans and their families.
This year, every VBC event is now completely free and open to the public. That means no charge for breakfast. But we do need a reservation, so please let us know you’re coming. Then, take a seat among veterans, family members, and neighbors who want to listen, learn, and connect.
If you’ve never been to a VBC event, the format is simple: we gather for a casual meal, then veterans (of any era and any branch) share short, first-person stories—funny, tough, surprising, and often unforgettable. You don’t have to be a veteran to attend. And you don’t have to speak to belong. Some people come to tell a story they’ve carried for years; others come because they want to understand what service really means beyond the headlines.
Whether you’re a veteran, related to one, or simply grateful and curious, this is a morning to be in the same room together—good food, good company, and the kind of storytelling that sticks with you long after the plates are cleared.
RSVP by calling 412-623-9029 or emailing JoAnn@veteransbreakfastclub.org. Please make sure to RSVP for events at least two days in advance.
Schedule:
8:00 am – Doors open, coffee & mingling
8:30 am – Breakfast served
9:00 am – 10:30 am – Storytelling and keynote
10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Veteran Information Fair
We’ll also host over 20 resource tables from Veterans Service Organizations offering information, services, and giveaways. Come to listen and learn, connect and heal, and say thank you to those who’ve served.
Interested in sponsoring this event? Check out our sponsorship information:
Whether you’re a veteran, a family member, or someone who simply wants to hear real stories from extraordinary lives, you’re welcome to pull up a chair and join our community of listening.
RSVPs and questions: joann@veteransbreakfastclub.org or by calling 412-623-9029
Presented by the Veterans Breakfast Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit bringing veterans together with the public to share stories since 2008.
The Veterans Breakfast Club has been bringing these people and more together for face-to-face storytelling events since 2008. People come to listen and learn, connect and heal, and say thank you to those who’ve served.
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The Veterans Breakfast Club (VBC) is the nation’s premier non-profit for connecting veterans with their fellow Americans through inspiring stories of service.
Our goal is to build a nation that understands and values the experiences of our military veterans so that every day is Veterans Day.
We do this by bringing together–in-person and online–men and women from all walks of life, all ages and eras, and every branch of service to talk about what they’ve seen and done. We want to hear how people’s military service has shaped them. “Every Veteran Has a Story” is our slogan. We want to hear every one.
We share the stories we hear in our weekly VBC Bulletin email newsletter and our quarterly VBC Magazine. We also record a weekly podcast, The Scuttlebutt, about military culture from the people who lived it.
We do all this because we believe the best way to thank a Veteran is to listen.
Listening is what the VBC has been doing for the past 15 years, when we held our first small event outside of Pittsburgh. Since then, we’ve held over 1,000 programs in-person and online and have welcomed over 20,000 different people at our events, Veterans and non-Veterans coming together to listen.
We value every veteran’s experience, no matter who they are or when or how they served. We’ve seen up close the power of storytelling, as the memories shared at VBC events connect, heal, educate, and inspire an ever-expanding circle of listeners.
THE VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT
Preserving veterans’ stories so that this living history is never forgotten.
We pair passionate VBC volunteers with military veterans for one-on-one oral history interviews over Zoom. If you are a veteran, or you know a veteran, who would be interested in sharing his or her story with us, let us know. If you are someone interested in conducting these interviews, please reach out!
At any given event, you might hear from the newest members of Space Force to a 101-year-old World War II veteran.
We’ve welcomed Tin Can Sailors and Montford Point Marines, Vietnam Sky Soldiers and Cold War intelligence officers. We’ve heard stories from the Horn of Africa to Antarctica, the Bering Sea to Diego Garcia, and all points in between.
LORAN Coast Guardsmen and Radar Station Airmen have told us about serving in some of the most remote places on earth.
Korean War veterans have borne witness to their “forgotten war.”
Other “forgotten warriors” shared their memories of Beirut, Grenada, and Mogadishu.
Some of the first women authorized for combat shared stories of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of the Purple Hearts they received.
