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Veterans Coffee
1st Wednesday of each Month Doors open at 0800
Upcoming Speakers
7 January 2026
My Lai Massacre of 1968
We will have three speakers with different viewpoints in a conversation facilitated by Chaplain Colonel Robert Lewis (Army, ret.): Dayton attorney Merle Wilberding who worked at Calley’s trial, Chief Master Sgt. John Bankowitz (ret.) who guarded Calley when he was imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, and Executive Director of the Champaign County History Museum Cheryl Ogden whose father was at the periphery of the event and who was impacted by it.
4 February 2026
Marine Captain (ret.) and Miami County Recorder David Norman
Marine Captain (ret) and Miami County recorder David Norman will acquaint the audience with his first-hand account of the situation on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon the day that Saigon fell and the North Vietnamese Army breached the American Embassy and headed up the steps
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