We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Synopsis

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Lt Gen. Harold Moore(ret) and Joseph Galloway is a gripping and intriguing novel about the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. The Battle of the Ia Drang was the first major engagement between the U.S. Army and the Peoples Army of Vietnam. The novel includes the personal accounts of many of the American soldiers who survived the battle and made it back to the United States.

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young gives a voice to the forgotten hero's of the Vietnam War, in the words of Joseph Galloway "The Battle of the Ia Drang is a battle our country does not remember and our war does not understand." The soldiers who went to Vietnam did not go because it was their duty, they went because they were forced to by their government. When they came home they were not greeted by civilians as hero's they were ignored and neglected by their society. They were forgotten and never were appreciated for the sacrifices they made. This book is a tribute to the young men who fought and died for a valley that was abandoned after it was captured and for the over 58,000 men who died in a war that was never fully explained by the government. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a remarkable account of these men and their stories.