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Joe Galloway, journalist, war reporter, veterans’ friend

Joe Galloway, a native of Refugio, Texas and one of America’s most outstanding war journalists, died Aug. 18 in North Carolina at the age of 79.

If you don’t know Joe, you may recall his book, “We Were Soldiers Once – And Young,” co-authored with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore.

The book was turned into a movie of the same name, starring Mel Gibson and Samuel Elliott, and focusing on the first major battle during the Vietnam War.

Joe was a journalist trying to get a better look at the real war, and hopped onto a helicopter with troops headed to the Ia Drang Valley in 1965, where U.S. troops were vastly outnumbered when for the first time they met a force of North Vietnamese Army regulars.
As a journalist at LZ Xray, he ended up fighting for his life and received the Bronze Star for rescuing injured soldiers during the battle.

He was the only citizen to receive the Bronze Star during the Vietnam War.

Joe was also on a team from the Knight-Ridder bureau in Washington, D.C. that made a credible case that justification for the Iraq War was wrong.

Read more here: https://www.cato.org/commentary/questioning-case-war

He spent the rest of his life becoming one of the strongest advocates for proper care of veterans. Many thanks,  Joseph Galloway , for bringing news of the Vietnam war to this country, and for your work on so many other foreign reporting issues. The late Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf described Joe as “the finest combat correspondent of our generation—a soldier’s reporter and a soldier’s friend.” https://lzxray.com/joe-galloway-biography/…

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