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| We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 5656
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 0.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0061147761
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.704342
EAN: 9780061147760
ASIN: 0061147761
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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 OK follow up September 9, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Maybe my expectations were too high....after all 'We Were Soldiers Once..and Young' is one of the all time great narratives of war. This one pales by comparison, but it still worth picking up. It's more a reflective piece and in that regard gets too self-absorbed in places. Definitely worth the read, but don't expect to get swept up like the first book.
 ...These Wounds I had On Crispin's Day August 21, 2008
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was a member of the original cast of their first book. Today we are met in Franklin, Tennessee, to remember the 17th November of '65, the happy few who made it out of Albany, the second part of the Ia Drang Valley battle that Randall Wallace would not film about. I'm sure that this book will be as good as the one I had the great honor though maybe not the pleasure of participating in its making. I only heard that it was finally out in print today and as many of those of us who are here gathered rushed to acquire an early copy. When I have read it, I shall send a sequel review and though I'll have to wait til my return home to peruse it, I highly recommend it, cite unseen.
 A Must Read for All Military Leaders September 12, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
All military leaders must read this book if only for LTG(R) Moore's views on the necessity for loving your Soldiers and your units - and always putting their needs, desires, and hopes before your own. Truly inspiring!
I greatly enjoyed this book for the author's perspective on the human cost of war in general - and in this case, specifically the Vietnam War. The obvious cost of human life is easily understood, what is not as easily understood or remembered is the toll that war takes on the families of fallen Soldiers, and on those Soldiers (and their families) - that survive the war but are forever changed.
I also enjoyed the description of Vietnam as it is now and the interaction that the returning Soldiers had with their former enemies - absolutely amazing. Additionally, I enjoyed the parts of the book that described his visit to the Dien Bien Phu battlefield - incredibly interesting to hear LTG(R) Moore's views on the lessons we should have learned from this battle.
The only negative that I have for this book is the last two chapters dealing with leadership, and a commentary of today's war in Iraq. Although it was interesting reading, these chapters seemed out of place in the context of the first nine chapters - I was caught off guard by these chapters.
Overall however, a great book and a quick read that I am glad that I read.
Should be on the Desk of every President, Congressperson, General and Soldier September 18, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a book that I hope will be widely read in the White House, Congress, Pentagon, West Point and Army bases. A very poignant journey for General Moore and journalist Joe Gallagher back to Vietnam and the Ia Drang valley where so many of Hal Moore's boys so bravely fell in battle. Nice that Moore and Gallagher visit the leaders of the opposing army. We too easily forget that those who fell as enemies were also fathers, husbands, sons who had families who mourned them. And that they fought for their own patriotic cause.
I wish this book would be widely read in our halls of power. Perhaps then our leaders would make sure that when we send our military off to war not as a first choice but as a very last choice. As the authors point out "it is far easier to get into a war than it is ever to get out".
I also wish this book would be widely read by the American population and considered before we vote for those we send to lead.
This was certainly a thought-provoking book to read during election season.
I hope we have more military leaders like Hal Moore and more journalists with the bravery and courage to speak the truth like Joe Gallagher.
Poignant Story of War & Rememberance November 7, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a true story of soldiers going back to the scene of an event that shaped their lives, the bloody Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Don't expect a war story, but rather a cathartic work of immense value to every politician who ever considered starting a war and anyone who ever fought one. I served with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam as a machine-gunner('66-'67)and think this is the finest nonfiction book written about the war since "We Were Soldiers Once.....and Young" by the same authors.
This is a monumental work, and should be on everyone's reading list whether they're history buffs or not.
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