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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Galloway Joseph L. Galloway Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 - August 18, 2021) is an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. Since 2013, he has worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He is also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers. He co-authored the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young. RIP | ||
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RIP Joe Galloway, a brave man. Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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Rest In Peace Mr. Galloway. The world lost a true combat journalist. | |||
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Rest easy, Sir. You earned it. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Followed the link provided by Flash. Learned that in 1998, Galloway was awarded the Bronze Star with “V device,” for his heroism in risking his life in aiding wounded soldiers at Ia Drang. The only civilian during the Vietnam War to be awarded the Bronze Star for heroism by the U.S. Army. I’ve always liked Barry Pepper as an actor, and I think he did a great job as Galloway in the movie We Were Soldiers… _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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This really saddens me. I know he carried the scars and trauma of his experience in the Ia Drang valley until his last day. Some years back, I watched an interview of his where he recounted the incident with PFC Jimmy Nakayama...it might have been on Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War". To this day, Mr. Galloway still cried over that event. I wept with him. RIP, Mr. Galloway. May you find peace and joy. Give my regards to LTG Moore, PFC Nakayama, and the rest of the 7th Cav... Could not agree more! "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Godspeed sir and thank you. | |||
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RIP Sir May you find peace and happiness. | |||
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I’ll never forget in a college history class we were assigned to read his and Hal Moore’s book We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. If you have not read their book I HIGHLY recommend it. Of all the books I was assigned to read (history majors read a lot of books) theirs is the one that sticks out in my memory the most. Rest in Peace Mr Galloway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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