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US Mall 1 - We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
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Manufacturer: Harper
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.704342
EAN: 9780061147760
ISBN: 0061147761
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: 2008-08-19
Studio: Harper
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Summary: A Lesson in War and Remembrance
Comment: Only a person who has fought in a war,only a person who has led in the heat and storm of battle can truly appreciate and understand war. Only they can make the best case for or against it. In this followup to "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young," General Moore does just that: talk about the destructive waste of war in real terms and helps the reader, and hopefully the American Public, understand the folly of war.
There are just and necessary wars, but Vietnam and most likely Iraq are not among them. His comments to the cadets at West Point regarding Vietnam, Iraq, Secretaries McNamara and Rumsfeld are especially poignant. As he says, we are about to ask those young men and women to risk their lives and possibly give their lives to their country. The least we can do is be honest with them. Amen to that, and to this book.
This book proves that we as a nation should listen, stand up and take note when our former military officers speak out against wars. They know whereof they speak.
There are essays on leadership, war, a tribute to one of General Moore's men and to his wife, but the real heart of this book is his return to battlefield of Vietnam, his meeting and developing respect and friendship with the men who tried to kill him on this ground, just as he was tried to kill them. Good stuff. Moving stuff.
The most striking thing about this book is the revelation that virtually all signs of the American presence in Vietnam are gone, erased from the face of the earth. It's as if we had never been there. Vietnam has moved on, its people accustomed to the comings and goings of war, while we Americans are still wrestling with and battling with our memories and scarred psyches of that war.
"Oh, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning" is a movie line and only a movie line. This book is the real stuff. It's not pretty and its tragic, but in the end it's heartwarming and hopeful---if and only if our leaders and the American people take notice.
Pray to God that they (we) do.
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Summary: RB from Michigan
Comment: A very good book about a truly unbelievable story. Much stronger if one reads the first book by these authors, "We were Soldiers Once and Young". To be able to return to a scene of battle and confront the demons of war is a good story, to do it in the company of your enemy is a truly fabulous tale.
Hal Moore is the finest soldier you'll ever read about and Joe Galloway is a gifted story teller and writer. If either man would walk into a room and ask me to join them in a battle I would not hesitate, both are extraordinary men. Read this book! Heck, read both books!
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Summary: Poignant Story of War & Rememberance
Comment: This is a true story of soldiers going back to the scene of an event that shaped their lives, the bloody Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Don't expect a war story, but rather a cathartic work of immense value to every politician who ever considered starting a war and anyone who ever fought one. I served with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam as a machine-gunner('66-'67)and think this is the finest nonfiction book written about the war since "We Were Soldiers Once.....and Young" by the same authors.
This is a monumental work, and should be on everyone's reading list whether they're history buffs or not.
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Summary: Worth reading.
Comment: Certainly no one can question the courage or loyalty of Lt. Gen Moore or that of his co-writer Mr. Galloway. However don't expect to read another Soldiers Once....this is a review of Gen Moore's return to Viet Nam. I'm not sure everyone would equivocate the North Vietnamese, with the troops of the American force as the General seems to do here. Whether we should forgive and forget, that they were just good ol' boys doing their job, would seem to me to be up to those who were there also to decide. It would seem that there would be those who are not willing to forget and forgive so easily as the General seems to do. However this should be recommended reading for any young person....well worth the time.
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Summary: We Are Soldiers Still
Comment: No less than what we have come to expect from Gen. Moore and Joe Galloway!
Written and told from the heart. Nam was the War - Vietnam is a country and people.
As soldier's we did what was expected of us - both U.S. Soldiers and Vietnamese Soldiers. Now it is time to do what is expected of us as non worriers, but civilians and Countries
The soldiers followed the orders of their governments, but always put thier brothers and sisters before themselves. These two booke "We Were Soldiers Once and ---Youg" and "We Are Soldiers Still" makes this point very clear.
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Summary: A Lesson in War and Remembrance
Comment: Only a person who has fought in a war,only a person who has led in the heat and storm of battle can truly appreciate and understand war. Only they can make the best case for or against it. In this followup to "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young," General Moore does just that: talk about the destructive waste of war in real terms and helps the reader, and hopefully the American Public, understand the folly of war.
There are just and necessary wars, but Vietnam and most likely Iraq are not among them. His comments to the cadets at West Point regarding Vietnam, Iraq, Secretaries McNamara and Rumsfeld are especially poignant. As he says, we are about to ask those young men and women to risk their lives and possibly give their lives to their country. The least we can do is be honest with them. Amen to that, and to this book.
This book proves that we as a nation should listen, stand up and take note when our former military officers speak out against wars. They know whereof they speak.
There are essays on leadership, war, a tribute to one of General Moore's men and to his wife, but the real heart of this book is his return to battlefield of Vietnam, his meeting and developing respect and friendship with the men who tried to kill him on this ground, just as he was tried to kill them. Good stuff. Moving stuff.
The most striking thing about this book is the revelation that virtually all signs of the American presence in Vietnam are gone, erased from the face of the earth. It's as if we had never been there. Vietnam has moved on, its people accustomed to the comings and goings of war, while we Americans are still wrestling with and battling with our memories and scarred psyches of that war.
"Oh, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning" is a movie line and only a movie line. This book is the real stuff. It's not pretty and its tragic, but in the end it's heartwarming and hopeful---if and only if our leaders and the American people take notice.
Pray to God that they (we) do.
Customer Rating:
Summary: RB from Michigan
Comment: A very good book about a truly unbelievable story. Much stronger if one reads the first book by these authors, "We were Soldiers Once and Young". To be able to return to a scene of battle and confront the demons of war is a good story, to do it in the company of your enemy is a truly fabulous tale.
Hal Moore is the finest soldier you'll ever read about and Joe Galloway is a gifted story teller and writer. If either man would walk into a room and ask me to join them in a battle I would not hesitate, both are extraordinary men. Read this book! Heck, read both books!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poignant Story of War & Rememberance
Comment: This is a true story of soldiers going back to the scene of an event that shaped their lives, the bloody Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Don't expect a war story, but rather a cathartic work of immense value to every politician who ever considered starting a war and anyone who ever fought one. I served with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam as a machine-gunner('66-'67)and think this is the finest nonfiction book written about the war since "We Were Soldiers Once.....and Young" by the same authors.
This is a monumental work, and should be on everyone's reading list whether they're history buffs or not.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth reading.
Comment: Certainly no one can question the courage or loyalty of Lt. Gen Moore or that of his co-writer Mr. Galloway. However don't expect to read another Soldiers Once....this is a review of Gen Moore's return to Viet Nam. I'm not sure everyone would equivocate the North Vietnamese, with the troops of the American force as the General seems to do here. Whether we should forgive and forget, that they were just good ol' boys doing their job, would seem to me to be up to those who were there also to decide. It would seem that there would be those who are not willing to forget and forgive so easily as the General seems to do. However this should be recommended reading for any young person....well worth the time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: We Are Soldiers Still
Comment: No less than what we have come to expect from Gen. Moore and Joe Galloway!
Written and told from the heart. Nam was the War - Vietnam is a country and people.
As soldier's we did what was expected of us - both U.S. Soldiers and Vietnamese Soldiers. Now it is time to do what is expected of us as non worriers, but civilians and Countries
The soldiers followed the orders of their governments, but always put thier brothers and sisters before themselves. These two booke "We Were Soldiers Once and ---Youg" and "We Are Soldiers Still" makes this point very clear.
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