Lt. Gen. HAROLD MOORE and U.S. News and World Report Senior Writer JOSEPH GALLOWAY. On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site one of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. MOORE was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and GALLOWAY, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. MOORE and GALLOWAY wrote a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, We Were Soldiers Once...And Young (Random House). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/11/92)Journalist and best-selling author DAVID HALBERSTAM. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting from Vietnam. He was one of the first American reporters to contradict the government's optimistic picture of the war. He was attacked by officials of South Vietnam and the United States for negativism and inaccuracy in his reporting. In 1967 HALBERSTAM retired from newspaper reporting. His books since then include The Best and Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Fifties, and others. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/3/93)Writer MICHAEL HERR. He wrote what's considered the definitive Vietnam book, Dispatches. The movie "Apocalypse Now" is loosely based on his writings. (REBROADCAST FROM 5/
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