Read We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam Online
Authors: Harold G. Moore;Joseph L. Galloway
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learns truth about his opponent at LZ Albany, 38–39
meeting with, 1991, 38–39
Moore’s friendship with, 68, 69, 98–99
return to Ia Drang (1993), 48–49, 53, 64, 84, 96, 98, 109–10, 113, 148–49
An Khe base, 13, 64–67, 68, 212
Garry Owen Officers Club, 67
Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 93–94
Associated Press (AP), 55
B-52 bombers, 11, 36, 39
Bai, Mr., 24–25, 26–27
Ball, George, 32
Baptism
(Gwin), 63–64
Barker, Oscar, Jr., 119
Beck, Bill, 42, 47, 50–51, 92–94, 96, 104–5, 200
Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey), 15
in air assault, Ia Drang, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 87, 133
assigned to 3rd Brigade, Air Cavalry, 6
command helicopter, Ia Drang, 9
evacuating LZ X-Ray, 10
No. 63-8808, disappeared Dec. 28, 1965, 87
Bengali proverb, 192
Binh, Vu, 99, 109, 228
bin Laden, Osama, 193–94
Bishop, Col. Jack, 178, 179
Bonebrake, Master Sergeant, 73–74
Brezhnev, Leonid, 194
Bright Shining Lie, A
(Sheehan), 32
Brokaw, Tom, 151
Brown, Col. Tim, 6, 123, 206
Burnite, Barry, 119, 121
Burns, Ken, 155
Bush, George H. W., 27
Bush, George W., 152, 212–14
awarding of Congressional Medal of Honor to Crandall, 200
failure of judgment, 191–92
Iraq War as mistake, 193–97
lack of war experience, 195
Presidential Library in Dallas, 195
C-123, 63, 77
Cambodia, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 68, 97
Camp Holloway, Pleiku, 3, 6, 10, 122, 123, 206
Caravelle Hotel, Saigon, 150–51
Carrerra, Robert, 78
Catecka Tea Plantation, Brigade Headquarters, 9
Chandler, A. B. “Happy,” 158, 159–60
Cheney, Dick, 191
China, 151
Communism/Communists in, 2
human-wave tactics, 45
Korean War and, 131–32, 138
trade with Vietnam, 151–52
Vietnam War and, 132
Chu Dreh Pass, 147–48
Civil War, 190
Pickett’s Charge, 171
Clinton, Bill, 27
Collins, Capt. B. T., 201
Communism/Communists
death of, 2, 43
in Vietnam, 2, 43, 151–52
Compton, Captain and Mrs. Louis J., 216–17, 224
Congressional Medal of Honor, xvii, 200
Continental Hotel, Saigon, 151
Cox, Eugene E., 160
Crandall, Maj. Bruce, xvii, 3, 10, 42, 47, 61, 63, 78, 86–87, 200, 227
Creal, Ed, 160, 161
Crittenden, Jules, 116–18
Cronkite, Walter, 151
Custer, Col. George Armstrong, 8–9, 67, 185
Dang, Minh Van, 99
Day One
(TV program), 5, 22, 41, 42, 228
de Castries, Brig. Gen. Christian, 134–36, 140
Diduryk, Capt. Myron, 205
Diduryk, Delores, 200
Dien Bien Phu, 22, 31, 33, 34, 42, 44–47, 67, 85, 132, 133–42
casualties, 130, 140
French prisoners taken, 140
French strongpoints, naming of, 139, 141–42
lessons of, 130, 132–33
studies of, 129
today, 139–40
Dillon, Capt. Greg “Matt,” 9, 79, 171
Drucker, Peter, 166
Eade, Sgt. John, 118–21
Edwards, Capt. Bob, 106
8th Army, 173, 177–78
82nd Airborne Division, 76, 217, 220
11th Airborne Division, 76
Elliott, Sam, 76–77, 221
Erasmus, 195
Esper, George, 55–56
Evans, Harry, 17
F-100
fighters, 107
Fall, Bernard, 129
5th Cavalry
5th Cavalry, 1st Battalion, 42, 113
5th Cavalry, 2nd Battalion, 11, 206
1st Cavalry Division, 3, 6, 11, 15, 29, 31, 36, 63, 65, 149
Airmobile, 3, 28, 123, 182
3rd Battalion, 6
3rd Brigade, 12, 13, 62, 78–79
Hueys available to, 6, 28
1st Cavalry Division Foundation, 229–30
Fonda, Jane, 179
Forrest, Lt. Col. George, 42, 47, 50–51, 99, 103, 110, 113, 115, 121, 124, 227
Fort Belvoir, 218
Fort Benning, Georgia, 6, 47, 74, 76, 106, 184, 208, 218, 219, 220, 223–24
cemetery, 223–24, 225
Infantry Museum, 212
Martin Army Hospital, 47, 80, 217
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 217, 220
Fort Leavenworth, 218
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 221
Fort Myer, Virginia, 218, 220
Fort Ord, California, 178–81, 218, 220
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 216
France
Americans’ contempt for French fighters, 130
cemetery in Vietnam, 67
colonialism of Indochina, 22, 25, 60, 189
end of rule in Indochina, 22, 30, 44, 45, 68, 133 (
see also
Dien Bien Phu)
Groupe Mobile 100 in Korea, 67
Indochina War (
see
Indochina War)
influence on Vietnamese culture, 60
public pressure to end Indochina War, 135
Freeman, Capt. Ed, xvii, 200
Fuck the Army (FTA), 179
Galloway, Joseph L., 93–94
battle at Ia Drang, xviii, 9–10, 78, 107
Bengali proverb, 192
career post-Vietnam, xviii, 14–17
confrontation with Gen.
Knowles, 123
desire to talk with North Vietnamese commanders, 20–21
evolution of book, 14–17, 101–2
friendship with Col. Thuoc, 144–45
Iraq War and, 193–97
in Jakarta, 59
Julia Moore’s death and, 223
Man and, 144
meets Giap, 31–33, 44–47, 130
meets Moore, 9–10
National Magazine Award, 16–17
night on battlefield (1993), 99, 102–3, 105
Persian Gulf War and, xi, xviii, 17, 220
Plumley and, 6, 7, 77–78, 88–89, 95
reports on battle at LZ X-Ray, 10
reports on Vietnam War, 14
return to Ia Drang (1993), 1–4, 22, 41–69, 86, 96, 147–51, 155
return to Pleiku (1993), 83–86
return to Vietnam (1990), 15–16, 20–33
return to Vietnam (1991), 22, 33–40
return to Vietnam (1999), 22, 130, 134–45
return to Vietnam (2005), 22, 153–54