Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Pritzker Military Library
610 N. Fairbanks Ct, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
312.587.0234
Reservations suggested
Member reception: 5:00pm CDT
Presentation & live webcast: 6:00pm CDT
No Charge
They were soldiers once, and young – and today, though many years older, they are soldiers still.
It was the 1992 publication (and Vietnamese translation) of We Were Soldiers Once…and Young that allowed journalist Galloway and retired Lt. Gen. Moore to return to the Ia Drang Valley, in the remote Central Highlands of Vietnam, site of the battle chronicled in their first book. Joined by men they had fought with, such as Medal of Honor recipient Bruce Crandall – and men they had fought against, such as North Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Nguyen Huu An – and equipped with only Moore’s old Army battle maps and Galloway’s very old Boy Scout compass, they returned to what they describe as “ground hallowed by the sacrifices of our men…no one who fought there, on either side, talked seriously about who won and who lost. In such a slaughterhouse there are no winners, only survivors.”
In We Are Soldiers Still, Galloway and Moore find occasion to reconcile with old enemies, examine the face of a land once scarred by war and now reclaimed by nature, and honor friends and young men lost in battle. They also reflect on lessons learned throughout their careers – how they were both changed by war, and how those lessons apply to wars being fought by young men today.
Joseph L. Galloway, sixty-six, is the author of a weekly syndicated column on military and national security affairs. He recently retired as senior military correspondent of Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Galloway spent twenty-two years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and nearly twenty years as a senior editor for U.S. News & World Report.
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, USA (Ret.), eighty-six, was a master parachutist and Army aviator, commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War, and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam. He retired from the Army in 1977 with thirty-two years' service.
Joseph L. Galloway, sixty-six, is a native of Refugio, Texas. The author of a weekly syndicated column on military and national security affairs, he recently retired as senior military correspondent of Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Galloway was a special consultant to Gen. Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001 and 2002. Galloway spent twenty-two years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and nearly twenty years as a senior editor and senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bayside, Texas.
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (USA Ret.), now eighty-six, was born in Kentucky. A West Point graduate, Moore was a master parachutist and Army aviator, commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War, and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam. He retired from the Army in 1977 with thirty-two years' service, and served as executive vice president of a Colorado ski resort for four years before founding a computer software company. Moore lives in Auburn, Alabama.
HarperCollins
Pritzker Military Library
610 N. Fairbanks Ct, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
312.587.0234
Reservations suggested
Member reception: 5:00pm CDT
Presentation & live webcast: 6:00pm CDT
No Charge
They were soldiers once, and young – and today, though many years older, they are soldiers still.
It was the 1992 publication (and Vietnamese translation) of We Were Soldiers Once…and Young that allowed journalist Galloway and retired Lt. Gen. Moore to return to the Ia Drang Valley, in the remote Central Highlands of Vietnam, site of the battle chronicled in their first book. Joined by men they had fought with, such as Medal of Honor recipient Bruce Crandall – and men they had fought against, such as North Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Nguyen Huu An – and equipped with only Moore’s old Army battle maps and Galloway’s very old Boy Scout compass, they returned to what they describe as “ground hallowed by the sacrifices of our men…no one who fought there, on either side, talked seriously about who won and who lost. In such a slaughterhouse there are no winners, only survivors.”
In We Are Soldiers Still, Galloway and Moore find occasion to reconcile with old enemies, examine the face of a land once scarred by war and now reclaimed by nature, and honor friends and young men lost in battle. They also reflect on lessons learned throughout their careers – how they were both changed by war, and how those lessons apply to wars being fought by young men today.
Joseph L. Galloway, sixty-six, is the author of a weekly syndicated column on military and national security affairs. He recently retired as senior military correspondent of Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Galloway spent twenty-two years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and nearly twenty years as a senior editor for U.S. News & World Report.
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, USA (Ret.), eighty-six, was a master parachutist and Army aviator, commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War, and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam. He retired from the Army in 1977 with thirty-two years' service.
Joseph L. Galloway, sixty-six, is a native of Refugio, Texas. The author of a weekly syndicated column on military and national security affairs, he recently retired as senior military correspondent of Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Galloway was a special consultant to Gen. Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001 and 2002. Galloway spent twenty-two years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and nearly twenty years as a senior editor and senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bayside, Texas.
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (USA Ret.), now eighty-six, was born in Kentucky. A West Point graduate, Moore was a master parachutist and Army aviator, commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War, and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam. He retired from the Army in 1977 with thirty-two years' service, and served as executive vice president of a Colorado ski resort for four years before founding a computer software company. Moore lives in Auburn, Alabama.
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