Veterans Breakfast Club USA

08/21/2026

The Countdown Begins: National Coast Guard Museum One Year from Opening
Decades in the making, the National Coast Guard Museum is set to open next summer on the banks of the Thames River in New London, Connecticut....Read Here>>>

The 80,000-square-foot National Coast Guard Museum is slated to open the week of the service's 237th anniversary.

08/21/2026

On This Day: Soviet Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Sails to North Pole
On August 17, 1977, nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika reached the North Pole and became the first ship in the world to get there by surface sailing. Read this Russian account of the voyage...Read More>>> https://www.rbth.com/articles/2012/09/05/when_the_arktika_conquered_the_north_pole_17453

08/21/2026

Every Veteran Has a Story. Come Hear Them.

Join the Veterans Breakfast Club for one of our most popular monthly gatherings in Bethel Park!

📅 Tuesday, September 1
🕣 8:30–10:30 AM
📍 Christ United Methodist Church
44 Highland Road, Bethel Park, PA

Whether you served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, or during peacetime, your experiences matter. At the Veterans Breakfast Club, you'll enjoy a complimentary breakfast while connecting with veterans, family members, friends, and neighbors through powerful stories of military service.

Our Bethel Park breakfast regularly welcomes more than 250 attendees, creating an unforgettable morning of camaraderie, laughter, remembrance, and inspiration. Every gathering is different because every veteran has a unique story to tell. Everyone is welcome—veterans, active-duty service members, military families, and community supporters. Breakfast begins at 8:30 AM, followed by our storytelling program at 9:00 AM.

🎟️ Admission is FREE, but reservations are requested.

Reserve your seat today and join a community that honors service by listening, sharing, and connecting.

👉 Learn more & RSVP: https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/event/breakfast-in-bethel-park-pa-tuesday-september-1st-830am/

  Join us in Bethel Park, PA, for a FREE 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

08/20/2026

Peter J. Ortiz may be the most remarkable American you’ve never heard of.

A Marine officer, OSS operative, and veteran of the French Foreign Legion, Ortiz led one of the most extraordinary military careers of World War II. Captured by the Germans more than once, he repeatedly escaped, returned to the fight, and eventually parachuted into occupied France to organize Resistance fighters, rescue downed Allied airmen, gather intelligence, and carry out sabotage missions behind enemy lines. His exploits became the stuff of legend, yet today his story remains surprisingly little known.

Join us as we talk with historian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds and researcher Katie S. Sanders, authors of Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the N***s in France, a new biography that reconstructs the life of this remarkable Marine and OSS officer from American and French archives. Along the way we’ll discuss the wartime OSS, the French Resistance, intelligence operations in occupied Europe, and the challenges of separating fact from myth when writing about someone whose life often seems almost too extraordinary to believe.

Nicholas Reynolds is the author of several acclaimed books on intelligence and World War II, including Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy and Need to Know. Katie Sanders is a historian whose research focuses on military history and special operations. Together they have produced what is likely to become the definitive account of Peter Ortiz’s life.

We hope you’ll join us for what should be an engaging conversation about one of the most fascinating—and overlooked—figures of World War II.

08/20/2026

STARTING SOON ZOOM: Thursday, August 20, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm ET
Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the N***s in France
Peter J. Ortiz may be the most remarkable American you’ve never heard of.

A Marine officer, OSS operative, and veteran of the French Foreign Legion, Ortiz led one of the most extraordinary military careers of World War II. Captured by the Germans more than once, he repeatedly escaped, returned to the fight, and eventually parachuted into occupied France to organize Resistance fighters, rescue downed Allied airmen, gather intelligence, and carry out sabotage missions behind enemy lines. His exploits became the stuff of legend, yet today his story remains surprisingly little known. Learn More>>> https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/event/oritzs-war/

08/20/2026

Step Inside the Soon-to-Open Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial
Get a sneak peek of the new memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as it prepares to open to the public in October...Watch here>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetTTWPNbmo

08/20/2026

Did you know? The VBC Has a New Home!
The Veterans Breakfast Club celebrated a milestone nearly two decades in the making: the opening of its first-ever brick-and-mortar home...Read More>>>

On June 11, 2026, the Veterans Breakfast Club celebrated a milestone nearly two decades in the making: the opening of its first-ever brick-and-mortar home.Located at 5850 Centre Avenue in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood, the new VBC

08/19/2026

TOMORROW ZOOM: Thursday, August 20, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm ET
Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the N***s in France
Peter J. Ortiz may be the most remarkable American you’ve never heard of.

A Marine officer, OSS operative, and veteran of the French Foreign Legion, Ortiz led one of the most extraordinary military careers of World War II. Captured by the Germans more than once, he repeatedly escaped, returned to the fight, and eventually parachuted into occupied France to organize Resistance fighters, rescue downed Allied airmen, gather intelligence, and carry out sabotage missions behind enemy lines. His exploits became the stuff of legend, yet today his story remains surprisingly little known. Learn More>>>

Peter J. Ortiz may be the most remarkable American you've never heard of. A Marine officer, OSS operative, and veteran of the French Foreign Legion, Ortiz led one of the most extraordinary military careers of World War II. Captured by the Germans

08/19/2026

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