We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

I am of course another one of those Ole" Nam Vets 67/69 Big Red One 1st/4th Calvary , I was a M-60 Gunner on a APC. III Corps. Did the First Tet in 68...I have the first We were Brothers Book book and read it from cover to cover in just a short time years ago. The We Were Solders Once is Nuts on........We all know that,I Then of course had to have the movie and it's Nuts on also,,,,,,then for some reason I overlooked "We are Soldiers Still". Probably because by then Agent Orange had given me 4 cancers to fight,I am fighting my 2nd lung cancer gift from the Fed's now and PTSD has flat out also kicked my ass. I am rated 1005 several times over So in case you can't tell I am pissed offI buried to many friends and to many feeling for 40 years now..... This book brings back the fact that our fight still goes on daily. 1,000 Nam Vets a day or more are dying of 69 Agent Orange related Cancers and Sicknesses spread by over 22 and 1/2 Million Gallons of Agent Orange Dioxins sprayed Few talk about that,The National Vets Groups have ditched us like dogs as they do their best to cop 20 bucks a year in dues from us that they can piss it away as they have been doing for 40 years or so. \ Not a dime has ever come down from these National Veterans Groups unless you want to go to a reunion and get drunk, Not a penny has been spent on Widows or our children that were screwed if we died of a non Approved AO cancer or sickness. Nor did they try and feed over the last 40 years our families of those killed In The Nam, with the Millions upon Millions of dollars you have conned the American people into thinking you were giving for their care and strangly you are all at the top of these groups living on the Top of the Chit pile while those that made the ultimate sacrifice have got the bottom of the Chit pile again. The VA has also ignored these Vets and especially their families. If you don't like kissing ass for help stay away from themFew if any offer warnigs of the dead and dying and huge daily body piles from AO we pretend don't exist. I have given 25 years plus of my life trying to help my Brothers and Sisters to overcome Nam In Country wounds and cancers and other AO related deadly killers This book brings home what we did Thank Youto you both. It's the Finest piece of work done on the war along with your other book and movie. I am grateful for our Brothers Moore and Galloway, the job you have both have done will never be forgotton. For many, many Generations, You are both the Pattons of the Nam War and will be Heroes forever justly so. I believe is the best work ever completed by Nam Vets, for Nam Vets and Moore (we miss ya) but you were a Officer and you did what most officers were not supposed to to do you showed all of us EM's Compassion just like many of our Senior NCO's. Whom if we had been without them and you and Joe the body count would probably have been triple of the almost 58,227 or so it is now on the Wall in DC It was In Country that most of you took time and taught us kids (I was 20 when I arrived in The Nam married with 2 kids) what the hell to do.If this book is not in your library add it. It will touch you like few other books that take up life after the war has done It is also a must read for any of you that are curious about what is was like in that chit hole.......and what we all carried home with us. God Bless you both and Welcome Home to All Also don't forget either "F--- Em All But Nine" If anyone has questions on donations spent by the National Vets Groups , I can justify my words , You see in that 25 years I got copies of every detailed financial statement from these so National Groups that once promised to "Never Leave a Veteran Behind" It was not suppposed to be a joke when they made that statement. It is now....

I need hardly add superlatives to the monumental epic that was "We were Soldiers Once..." I consider myself priveleged to have read and thereby shared the epic events described in the company of a humanitarian, reflective and yet ultimately humble hero, General Moore.You rocket in on that chopper and the book gets it on from the get go.Once you are through the X-Ray and Albany horrors don't expect a respite. I cried like a child as the fallout from the deaths of these brave men was spelled out by those they left behind.I recommend that you then watch the Mel Gibson movie to compare your mind's eye picture of the battle with Hollywood's. Old Mel did a fine job. It was exactly how I had pictured it. Book followed by movie; usually such a move is a fraught exercise but this only enhanced my understanding.The film does not address the subsequent Albany ambush and what appears to be a huge embarassment for the army. Failures all along the line led to a needless massacre. The army looked the other way in the aftermath. Moore does not shy away from the controversy in this second book and Westmoreland gets a lot of stick. (Nothing compared to Moore's later stinging rebuke of Dubya and Rumsfeld...may they burn in hell for the US lives they have so recklessly thrown away)"We are Warriors Still" I found compulsory reading in order to complete my Ia Drang experience. I found it mesmerizing and heartbreaking. Moore and his comrades do the ultimate service to their dead buddies by flying to the now deserted battlesite and walking the lines on one last patrol.I ate up the book barely pausing in my need to equate now with then; in my pleasure at feeling the noble warmth of Moore's humanity. Those troops could not have had a better commander in the field. A Rommel of a man!That being said, I share my fellow reviewers' consternation at Moore's forgiveness and embrace of foes who callously murdered both US POWs and wounded in the field.The NVA General An's comment that they were worried that the wounded soldiers would kill them if not silenced is simply not good enough. I know some of you out there will bring up Mai Lai but that was an exception. An seems to talk of this murder as an unfortunate but necessary policy. People have gone to the gallows or the Hague for less. Moore also mentions the massacres by the NVA of the civilians in Hue and on the road to Cambodia. We're talking in the tens of thousands here. Never heard Hanoi Jane bleating about that side of the conflict. Yet Moore incomprehensibly still finds it in his heart to see the NVA as patriots. I'm sure Stalin was one too but I'd still like to have put arsenic in his tea if I'd sat with him.There's also a chapter on leadership which seems a little out of place in this book and seems more geared to military cadets reading the book as a designated text.In closing, you simple cannot not read this if the first book hooked you in.I'm just waiting for the book and movie on Ricky Rescorla. A life so extraordinary it couln't have been scripted better by Shakespeare.General Moore, Joe Galloway I salute you.

This book describes in incredible detail the first clash of the Vietnam War between US Army and the regular hard-core North Vietnamese Army.

A nice follow up to the previous book but Wish it was longer and also taking more of the accounts that the other vets who went with the 2 main writers. Also a good synopsis of Hal Moores career. Also be good to know how the vets have faired since too

Just finished reading the second book about the Vietnam battles at La Drang and must say it was an interesting conclusion. Well worth the 4 hours it took to read it from cover to cover.

Having read WE WERE SOLDIERS AND YOUNG this book is almost a sequel. It is a brilliant read and shows how once bitter enemies can become friends. It is a must read for anyone who has read the original book.

very good book.after seeing the film, reading this is very interesting as both sides in the war are are in the book.