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We Are Soldiers Still LP: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 206991
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0061469009
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.704342
EAN: 9780061469008
ASIN: 0061469009
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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pIn the mega-bestselling memoir iWe Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young/i, authors Hal Moore and Joe Galloway brought to life one of the most pivotal and heartbreaking battles of the Vietnam War. In this powerful sequel, they return to the Vietnam battlefield they immortalized to explore how the war changed them, their men, their enemies, and both countries. Mixing gritty and vivid detail with reverence and respect for their comrades, iWe Are Soldiers Still/i recounts an unusual homecoming in which soldiers on both sides return to the Ia Drang Valley to look back#8212;and forward./p
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 Poignant Story of War Rememberance November 7, 2008
Patrick Picciarelli (Pittsburgh. PA)
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. br / br /This is a monumental work, and should be on everyone's reading list whether they're history buffs or not.
 Worth reading. October 6, 2008
JOHN FRANCIS
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Certainly no one can question the courage or loyalty of Lt. Gen Moore or that of his co-writer Mr. Galloway. However don't expect to read another Soldiers Once....this is a review of Gen Moore's return to Viet Nam. I'm not sure everyone would equivocate the North Vietnamese, with the troops of the American force as the General seems to do here. Whether we should forgive and forget, that they were just good ol' boys doing their job, would seem to me to be up to those who were there also to decide. It would seem that there would be those who are not willing to forget and forgive so easily as the General seems to do. However this should be recommended reading for any young person....well worth the time.
We Are Soldiers Still October 6, 2008
Ronald A. Worstell (Canonsburg, PA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
No less than what we have come to expect from Gen. Moore and Joe Galloway! br / br /Written and told from the heart. Nam was the War - Vietnam is a country and people. br / br /As soldier's we did what was expected of us - both U.S. Soldiers and Vietnamese Soldiers. Now it is time to do what is expected of us as non worriers, but civilians and Countries br / br /The soldiers followed the orders of their governments, but always put thier brothers and sisters before themselves. These two booke "We Were Soldiers Once and ---Youg" and "We Are Soldiers Still" makes this point very clear.
Should be on the Desk of every President, Congressperson, General and Soldier September 18, 2008
RamboLiberal (Pittsburgh, PA)
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. br /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". br /I also wish this book would be widely read by the American population and considered before we vote for those we send to lead. br /This was certainly a thought-provoking book to read during election season. br /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. br /
A Must Read for All Military Leaders September 12, 2008
Joseph F. Birchmeier (Milford, KS)
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! br / 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. br / 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. br / 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. br / Overall however, a great book and a quick read that I am glad that I read.
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