We Were Soldiers Once...

Forty years ago elements of the 1st Cavalry Division encountered the People's Army of Vietnam in the Ia Drang Valley, in what developed into the first major battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. This battle was dramatized in the film We Were Soldiers, which was in turn based on the book We Were Soldiers Once... And Young, by Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore (RET.) and Joseph L. Galloway.

Two Boston veterans of that battle were recently profiled in the Boston Herald by Jules Crittenden. Apparently Mr. Crittenden had a great deal of material that did not make into the Herald article, presumably due to space constraints. That material is now available here.