Vietnam War Hero Passes Away at 94
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Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army
Col. Hal Moore during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, November 1965.
"There is something missing on this earth now that we've lost a great warrior, a great soldier, a great human being, and my best friend. They don't make them like him anymore." Those words of Joe Galloway, spoke to the character of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, upon Moore's passing on Friday, February 10th, at age 94.
And Galloway should know. He was a war correspondent during the early years of the Vietnam War. Galloway and Moore co-authored the book, We Were Soldiers Once...And Young, a book that would become the epic film, We Were Soldiers, the story of the first big battle of the Vietnam War....
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