Nguyen Huu An, the North Vietnamese commander, stood in a circle in the clearing and prayed for the souls of every man who died on both sides,” said Galloway. At the end of the day, Hal Moore and Col. “We went back and walked those old battlefields. Galloway and Moore wrote a second book, We Are Soldiers Still, which he said grew out of a journey back to the battlefields of Vietnam 25 years later. He was certain we were going to win that fight and he was right,” Galloway recalled. I think every one of us thought we were going to die at that place except Hal Moore. “Those of us who survived Landing Zone X-Ray survived because of his brilliance of command. Galloway, a former war correspondent for United Press International, said Moore was “without question, one of the finest commanders I ever saw in action. The book tells what happened to virtually every trooper involved in the 34-day campaign and the climactic four-day battle in which 234 Americans died at landing zones X-Ray and Albany in November 1965. His efforts were later reflected in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers, in which Mel Gibson portrayed Moore. Moore was best known for his actions at the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, where he was a lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment. Newton Minow, Public TV Advocate and Former FCC Chief, Dies at 97
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