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Joe Galloway was a reporter who was not only present at this battle but also picked up a weapon a fought beside American troops.

JOE GALLOWAY
INTERVIEW WITH JOE GALLOWAY: SOLDIER’S REPORTER SPEAKS HIS MIND
His unyielding commitment to truth, and to Vietnam vets, is as solid as ever
By VIETNAM MAGAZINE4/18/2011


Just months after 23-year-old reporter Joe Galloway got to Vietnam, he found himself with Lt. Col. Hal Moore and his beleaguered 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment at Ia Drang. The epic Nov. 1965 battle, where Galloway took up arms to save soldiers’ lives—for which he received a Bronze Star with V Device—forged a deep friendship between the two men. Their collaboration led to two books, We Were Soldiers Once…And Young and We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam, and the film We Were Soldiers Once, destined to be a classic on the war. Galloway’s storied career of reporting around the globe has spanned more than four decades. His unyielding commitment to truth—and to Vietnam vets—is as solid as ever.
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How do you respond to those who claim the media lost the Vietnam War?

It wasn’t the media. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t Peter Arnett or Walter Cronkite. The war was lost at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by a succession of American presidents. They all had a hand in it. It was easy for the embittered military officers, sitting around the clubs in the years after Vietnam to bitch and moan about how the press lost the war. We didn’t do it. We did not lose the war. The media does not have the power now to start or end a war. But, frankly, I wish I could have gotten myself out of LZ XRay and sat down and written a story so powerful about that battle that it would have driven LBJ to withdraw the American forces and cut our loses. If I could have done that, if I’d had that power, then there would only be some 1,100 names on that Wall in Washington instead of 58,270. And I would be proud to have carved on my tombstone, “He stopped the war.” But that’s not the way it works, its not how it happened. The press didn’t lose it, and we couldn’t win it, all we could do was our job and that was to try to tell the truth about what was going on.
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