We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam (33 page)

history’s view of, 108

Ho Chi Minh Trail, xv, 4, 22, 28, 37, 85, 136

Hue massacre, 55

An Khe base, 64–67, 87

An Khe Pass, 63

lack of officer training, 56

learning from, xx, 45, 196

MIA issue, 27

Moore and Galloway’s quest for truth, 2

Moore’s plan for an operation, 165

My Lai massacre, 55–56

North Vietnamese killing of

U.S. prisoners, 86

North Vietnamese killing of U.S. wounded, 44, 50

North Vietnam generals, 16 (
see also specific generals

)

North Vietnam tactics and strategy, 35–37

Operation Masher–White Wing, 62, 63

Operation Starlight, 35

as “people’s war,” 32

Pleiku Campaign (Tay Nguyen Campaign), xv–xvi, xvii, 13, 22, 34, 35 (
see also

Ia Drang Valley battles)

Plei Me Camp, 6, 10, 35, 36, 88

POW camp, Mekong Delta, 24–25

press coverage, 55–56

Qui Nhon, 85th Evacuation

Hospital at, 123

Qui Nhon, troop landing at, 54, 62, 87

refugees after fall of Saigon, 148

reporters and newsmen in, 10, 55, 151 (
see also

Galloway, Joseph L.)

resolution of Vietnamese opposition, 31, 145

soldiers, both sides, as blood brothers, 40

start of U.S., 7

Tet Offensive, 32, 55

“Trail of Tears,” 148

tunnels and trenches, 138–39

U.S. technology vs. peasant army, 37

U.S. veterans, unresolved anger, 44

veterans from both sides meeting, 48–51

Wallenius, Jon, 200

war, 187–201

American reluctance to start, historically, 192

on American soil, 190

doctrine of preemptive military action, 191–92

Erasmus on, 195

as failure of leadership, xx, 55–56, 188, 192, 193

as last resort, 188

no “noble” war, 108

psychological effects on survivors, 155

soldier’s motivation in, 108

Sun Tzu on, 137

tests to meet, questions to answer before committing to, 188–89

trench warfare, 131, 132, 137–39

World War II as necessary war, 189–90

War, The
(TV documentary), 155

War of 1812, 190

weapons, North Vietnamese

105mm howitzers, 45, 136

AK-47s, 8

antiaircraft guns, 136

Katyusha rockets, 136

weapons, U.S.

40mm M79 grenades, 91, 116

105mm howitzers, 9, 65–66

flechettes, 60

fuel-air bomb, 150

M16 machine guns, 7

M60 machine guns, 7

rocket-firing helicopter gunships, 9

Westmoreland, Gen. William C., 122–24

We Were Soldiers
(film), xvi

Julia Moore’s influence on, 221–22

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
(Moore and Galloway), xii, xvi, 4, 41, 76–77, 200, 206, 218–19

evolution of book, 14–17

translated into Vietnamese, 2, 49

World War I, 190

World War II

Americans in, 190

attack on Pearl Harbor, 159, 172

Battle of the Bulge, 172

Bishop in, 178

Burns’s documentary on, 155

casualties, 190

casualties, American, 190

combat jumps of 82nd Airborne (Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, Market Garden), 76

failure of leadership and, 172

German invasion of Poland, 190

as necessary war, 189–90

Plumley in, 74, 75, 76

Wrong, Terry, 41, 42, 99, 228

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About the Authors

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.

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.

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