In-person storytelling
Veterans, family members, friends, and civilians gather for informal events centered on first-person military stories and conversation.
Beyond The Yellow · Feature Story
Some veterans carry a story for decades.Sometimes the right room is what lets it out.
Veterans Breakfast Club builds in-person and online communities around veterans telling first-person stories and other people listening closely enough to preserve them.
Shaun Hall
Director of Programming · Veterans Breakfast Club
Why VBC is featured
Listening can be an operating model, not just a sentiment.
The Beyond The Yellow conversation examines what happens when veterans are given low-pressure places to tell stories in their own words—stories that may be funny, difficult, historically important, ordinary, or never previously shared with family members.
2008
Veterans Breakfast Club storytelling gatherings began
15,500+
Quarterly magazine distribution per issue
Nearly 5K
Weekly VBC Bulletin subscribers
2026
First permanent VBC Welcome Center opened
Veterans Breakfast Club public program and reach information reviewed September 6, 2026. Review VBC's program information.
How the work operates
The same storytelling mission moves across rooms, broadcasts, publications, and a permanent center.
Live and online conversations
VBC extends those conversations online so veterans from different eras and locations can participate and listeners can hear directly from people who served.
Published and archived stories
VBC Magazine, the weekly Bulletin, oral-history work, and other media keep stories available beyond the room where they were first told.
A permanent gathering place
The VBC Welcome Center in Pittsburgh provides a physical home for storytelling, education, community events, and veteran connection.
Continue with Veterans Breakfast Club
Events, publications, and current programs are maintained by VBC.
ValorWell is publishing the conversation and feature. Veterans Breakfast Club owns its event calendar, Welcome Center information, publications, subscriptions, and current program details.