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.

Weekly Virtual Programs

Online storytelling programs for veterans and anyone interested in their stories from all over the USA.

In-Person
Veteran Events

Breakfasts and lunches around the USA where veterans, family, friends, and others meet to share their stories.

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In-depth veteran stories and history drawn from our VBC programs. You can check it out online or have it delivered in print.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wills for Heroes: Free Estate Planning Documents for Veterans & First Responders

Date: July 11, 2026
Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: VBC Welcome Center (5850 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206)
Events | In-Person Events
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Prepared by volunteer attorneys from the Allegheny County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.

FREE Wills for Heroes Estate Planning Clinic

Saturday, July 11, 2026
8:30 AM–12:30 PM
Veterans Breakfast Club Welcome Center
5850 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Volunteer attorneys from the Allegheny County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division will prepare free estate planning documents for eligible veterans, military personnel, first responders, and qualifying spouses or partners.

RESERVE YOUR APPOINTMENT

Please select only ONE appointment time.

Only 32 appointment slots are available.

What Documents Are Included?

Services may include:

  • Last Will & Testament
  • Financial Power of Attorney
  • Health Care Power of Attorney
  • Living Will
  • Other essential estate planning documents

Who Is Eligible?

  • Veterans
  • Active-duty military personnel
  • Retired military personnel
  • Active first responders
  • Retired first responders
  • Eligible spouses and partners

Participants must have a net worth under $1,000,000.

About Wills for Heroes

Wills for Heroes is a public service program that provides free basic estate planning documents to those who have served their communities and country. Volunteer attorneys donate their time to help participants put important legal protections in place for themselves and their families.

CLICK HERE TO SCHEDULE YOUR APPOINTMENT

 

Breakfast in Unity Township, PA | Wednesday, July 15, 8:30am

Date: July 15, 2026
Time: 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Location: Unity Township American Legion Post 982 (158 American Legion Rd, Latrobe, PA 15650)
Events | In-Person Events
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Join us for a FREE VBC breakfast in Unity Township at the American Legion Post 982 (158 American Legion Rd, Latrobe, PA 15650) on July 15 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.

We plan our usual fast-moving and wide-ranging program with lots of participation. We’ll have veterans of various ages and branches of service sharing their stories of service.

Breakfast is served at 8:30am. At 9:00am, we start the program. For the next 90 minutes, veterans share slices of their service experience. You never know what you’re going to hear, and there’s always new people with new memories to offer.

RSVP by calling 412-623-9029 or emailing betty@veteransbreakfastclub.org. Please make sure to RSVP for events at least two days in advance. We understand that your schedule can change quickly, but advance notice of attendance always helps us and our venues prepare the program. Thank you!

Please consider sponsoring this event!

Every Veteran Has a Story.
Hear Them Now.

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The mission of the Veterans Breakfast Club is to create communities of listening around veterans and their stories to ensure that this living history will never be forgotten.  We believe that through our work, people will be connected, educated, healed, and inspired.

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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 SCUTTLEBUTT

Your weekly dose of veterans’ stories, military news, and the latest headlines, all in one place

Watch and listen to the Scuttlebutt, the VBC’s podcast dedicated to understanding military culture. Hosted by Shaun Hall, Director of Programming. New episode every Monday at 6AM ET.

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.

Join us at our events and help keep these stories alive.

All you need to do is listen.