Veterans Coffee
1st Wednesday of each Month
Doors open at 0800
November 11, 2026
November 11th:marks a a BIG Celebration for Area Veterans!
The Miami Valley Veterans Museum, located at 2245 South County Road 25A in Troy, will be celebrating Veterans Day with a free full breakfast for veterans and family members, prepared by Pastor Vickie Evans and her wonderful team of veterans and civilians from the St. James Community Church. Groups within the St. James Community Church congregation, namely the St. James Caring Community of Women and the St. James Men on the Move, have been planning this event for months. Tables will feature patriotic themes and will have vases of flowers donated by a local florist. Evans says, “We feel honored to be doing this for veterans to show our appreciation for what they have done and do to keep us safe.” Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m.
Even if you don’t plan to eat breakfast, please plan to attend for our 9 a.m. guest speaker, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Paul Craft. He is an experienced cyber-
security executive with 35 years of progressive technical and organizational leadership experience. His last job in uniform was the Deputy Commanding General for Army Cyber and Joint Force HQs Cyber (Army), US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).
A 1993 West Point graduate, , General Craft experienced firsthand the advent of the internet, digital communications, satellite advancements, cloud architectures, and both cybersecurity and advance hacking techniques. He was formally trained in multiple military and civilian educational institutions, attaining three masters degrees.
As a trusted cyber leader, he has defended our Nation and engineered, operated and secured advanced networks in peace-keeping operations in Haiti, in armistice along the norther border of the Republic of Korea and in daily operations across the Pacific theater. In wartime in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, he established robust and secure satellite and fiber communications to hundreds of critical outposts supporting US and Coalition partners and culminated his distinguished career in 2024 by directing the cyber operations and active defenses for the DoD’s global network in three theaters simultaneously.
He has been awarded some of the highest honors in the military to include the Distinguished Service Medal (the fourth highest award earned in the Army), two Defense Superior Service Medals, three Legions of Merit, and a Bronze Star Medal.
In 2024, he returned back home to Piqua, Ohio after 35 years of service to our Nation, back to the same farmhouse outside Fletcher, Ohio. He and his wife of 33 years, Christina (Francis) Craft, from Troy, also raised on a farm outside Casstown, Ohio are now building a home for their daughter and son-in-law and new grandchild on that same property.