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10945 VVA.mech5_magazine 3/8/17 11:37 PM Page 50 PARTING SHOT First Man on the Battlefield BY MARC LEEPSON led a recently arrived, below-strength, 450-man 1st Cavalry Divi- sion battalion. Within minutes after alighting at a supposedly safe etired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, 94, died Feb- landing zone, his men came under withering attack from the ruary 10 at his home in Auburn, Alabama. One of the na- NVA’s 2,000-man 66th Regiment. The vicious fight lasted almost Rtion’s smartest, bravest, and most accomplished military three days and left 151 Americans dead and 124 wounded. leaders, Hal Moore—a life member of Vietnam Veterans of Amer- For Hal Moore’s brilliant leadership and daring, he was ica—was best known for his courageous leadership at the Battle awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. “If ever a man were of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. born to command a battle, it was Hal Moore,” journalist Stephen “There’s something missing on this Earth now. We’ve lost a Hunter wrote. great warrior, a great soldier, a great human being, and my best I met him in 1999 at VVA’s Convention in Anaheim. He sat on friend,” war correspondent Joe Galloway said at the general’s fu- a panel I moderated on the Battle of the Ia Drang. When I first neral. “They don’t make them like him anymore.” shook hands with him, I said, “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Gen. In 1992 Galloway and Moore co-wrote We Were Soldiers Moore.” Once…and Young, an almost minute-by-minute retelling of the He warmly replied, “Please call me Hal.” November 1965 actions at Landing Zones X-Ray and Albany, the But every time this former Army Spec.5 addressed him, I called fiercest components of the 34-day Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in him “General Moore.” Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Moore, then a lieutenant colonel, Rest in peace, Hal.Ω COURTESY MOORE FAMILY MOORE COURTESY 50 THEVVA VETERAN Semibold, Roman, Bold 12-12-2016 4:36 PM M 1 G Medium M Condensed CMYK 448 ppi u .

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