Past Live Events

Streamed live on September 23, 2024 VBC Scuttlebutt welcomes bestselling author Kristin Hannah to talk about her wildy popular and well-reviewed novel The Women. The...

Streamed live on September 16, 2024 Ralph Galati shares the story of his harrowing experience as a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War....

Streamed live on September 9, 2024 In his award-winning book of short stories, Surrender, Brian O’Hare delves into the complexities of the American hero myth...

Streamed live on September 5, 2024 US Army Colonel Arthur Lee Shreve survived the Bataan Death March and years as a POW of the Japanese...

Streamed live on September 2, 2024 VBC Scuttlebutt Open Conversation poses the question: does the term “combat veteran” demean the service of “rear echelon” soldiers,...

Streamed live on August 29, 2024 We play two rounds of Open World War II Jeopardy with clues based on all things regarding the Second...

Streamed live on August 22, 2024 We welcome journalist Jeanne McKinney to shine a light on a little-known episode of the war in Afghanistan that...

Streamed live on August 15, 2024 For the anniversary of the Fall of Kabul, we welcome Fakhriya Hashemi to the Scuttlebutt to share her family’s...

Streamed live on August 19, 2024 Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and Afghanistan War veteran Mikael Cook joins us to talk about the August 2021...

Streamed live on August 12, 2024 The C-130, missing its cargo door, was filled with hundreds of Vietnamese refugees, including the Nguyen family. Among them...

Streamed live on August 8, 2024 This World War II Open Conversation led by historians Todd DePastino and Glenn Flickinger starts with a discussion of...

Streamed live on August 5, 2024 VBC Scuttlebutt takes on the controversial and sensitive issue of redefining what it means to be a “Gold Star...