Lt General Harold G Moore (Author) Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore retired from the Army as a 3 Star General in 1977 with over 32 years active service. Commissioned a 2nd Lt of Infantry in 1945 he served and commanded at all levels from Platoon through Division. After his retirement from active duty in 1977 Hal became the Executive Vice President of the Crested Butte Ski Area in Crested Butte CO. During the '80s and early '90s he researched and wrote a book We Were Soldiers Once. and Young with his co-author Joe Galloway then of US News and World Report. The book covers the first major battle of the Vietnam War the Ia Drang Battle in which both men participated. Hal was the Battalion Commander on the ground and Joe was a UPI correspondent. Joseph L. Galloway (Author) Joe Galloway is a native Texan. At seventeen he was a reporter on a daily newspaper at nineteen a bureau chief for United Press International. he spent fifteen years as a foreign and war correspondent based in Japan Vietnam Indonesia India Singapore and the Soviet Union. After UPI service in Los Angeles he spent several years as a feature and Senior Writer in Washington DC with US News and World Report. . Language: English