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{{Short description|American newspaper correspondent and columnist}}
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| death_place = [[Concord, North Carolina]], U.S.
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'''Joseph Lee Galloway''' (November 13, 1941{{spnd}}August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a [[Bronze Star Medal]] in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965.<ref name="We Were Soldiers">[http://www.weweresoldiers.net/award.htm We Were Soldiers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018223135/http://www.weweresoldiers.net/award.htm |date=October 18, 2018 }} BSM Citation</ref> From 2013 until his death, he 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 [[The Vietnam War (film)|documentary history of the Vietnam War]] broadcast in the fall of 2017 by [[PBS]]. He was also the former Military Affairs consultant for the [[Knight-Ridder]] chain of [[newspaper]]s and was a columnist with [[McClatchy Newspapers]].<ref>McClatchy Newspapers [Joe Galloway {{cite web|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/101 |title=Archived copy |access-date=October 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621001951/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/101 |archive-date=June 21, 2009 }}]</ref>
'''Joseph Lee Galloway''' (November 13, 1941{{spnd}}August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a [[Bronze Star Medal]] in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965.<ref name="We Were Soldiers">[http://www.weweresoldiers.net/award.htm We Were Soldiers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018223135/http://www.weweresoldiers.net/award.htm |date=October 18, 2018 }} BSM Citation</ref> From 2013 until his death, he 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 [[The Vietnam War (film)|documentary history of the Vietnam War]] broadcast in the fall of 2017 by [[PBS]]. He was also the former Military Affairs consultant for the [[Knight-Ridder]] chain of newspapers and was a columnist with [[McClatchy Newspapers]].<ref>McClatchy Newspapers [Joe Galloway {{cite web|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/101 |title=McClatchy &#124; Joe Galloway |access-date=October 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621001951/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/101 |archive-date=June 21, 2009 }}]</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Galloway was born in [[Bryan, Texas]], on November 13, 1941.<ref name="WP obit">{{cite news|title=Joseph Galloway, chronicler and champion of soldiers in Vietnam, dies at 79|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joseph-galloway-dead/2021/08/18/9c5f647a-feac-11eb-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html|first=Harrison|last=Smith|date=August 18, 2021|access-date=August 19, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref name=Shearer>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgmoC1zwBCUC&pg=PA324|title=Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime|volume=2|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|editor-last=Shearer|editor-first=Benjamin F.|page=324|isbn=9780313334221}}</ref> His father, Joseph,<ref name=Shearer/> fought in the [[United States Army|US Army]] during [[World War II]];<ref name="WP obit"/> his mother was Marian Dewvall.<ref name=Shearer/> His family relocated to [[Refugio, Texas]], after his father was employed by [[Humble Oil]] upon his return from military service. Galloway initially enrolled in community college in 1959, but dropped out after six weeks to join the Army.<ref name="WP obit"/> His mother convinced him to go into journalism,<ref name="WP obit"/> and he subsequently majored in the subject at [[Victoria College (Texas)|Victoria College]].<ref name=Shearer/>
Galloway was born in [[Bryan, Texas]], on November 13, 1941.<ref name="WP obit">{{cite news|title=Joseph Galloway, chronicler and champion of soldiers in Vietnam, dies at 79|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joseph-galloway-dead/2021/08/18/9c5f647a-feac-11eb-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html|first=Harrison|last=Smith|date=August 18, 2021|access-date=August 19, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref name=Shearer>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgmoC1zwBCUC&pg=PA324|title=Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime|volume=2|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|editor-last=Shearer|editor-first=Benjamin F.|page=324|isbn=9780313334221}}</ref> His father, Joseph,<ref name=Shearer/> fought in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] during [[World War II]];<ref name="WP obit"/> his mother was Marian Dewvall.<ref name=Shearer/> His family relocated to [[Refugio, Texas]], after his father was employed by [[Humble Oil]] upon his return from military service. Galloway initially enrolled in community college in 1959, but dropped out after six weeks to join the Army.<ref name="WP obit"/> His mother convinced him to go into journalism,<ref name="WP obit"/> and he subsequently majored in the subject at [[Victoria College (Texas)|Victoria College]].<ref name=Shearer/>

His paternal great-grandfather James Isham Galloway lost his right leg at the [[Second Battle of Manassas]] in the [[American Civil War]], and his maternal great-grandfather James William Reid (whose daughter married James Isham Galloway) lost his left leg at the [[Battle of the Wilderness]]. They ended up on adjoining farms. After the war, they got together once a year and went to town to buy boots. They would buy one pair and split them up, giggling over how they'd screwed the shopkeeper.


==Career==
==Career==
===Newspapers===
===Newspapers===
Galloway started his career at ''[[The Victoria Advocate]]'' in [[Victoria, Texas]], afterwards working for [[United Press International]] (UPI) in the [[Kansas City Metropolitan Area|Kansas City]] and [[Topeka]] bureaus. Later, he served overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in [[Tokyo]], [[Vietnam]], [[Jakarta]], [[New Delhi]], [[Singapore]], [[Moscow]], and [[Los Angeles]]. He worked as a reporter for UPI during the early part of Vietnam War in 1965. Thirty-three years later, he was decorated with the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] for helping to rescue a badly wounded soldier while under enemy fire on November 15, 1965, during the [[Battle of Ia Drang]] at [[Landing Zone]] X-Ray in Vietnam.<ref>{{cite web
Galloway started his career at ''[[The Victoria Advocate]]'' in [[Victoria, Texas]], afterwards working for [[United Press International]] (UPI) in the [[Kansas City Metropolitan Area|Kansas City]] and [[Topeka]] bureaus. Later, he served overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in Tokyo, [[Vietnam]], [[Jakarta]], New Delhi, Singapore, Moscow, and Los Angeles. He worked as a reporter for UPI during the early part of Vietnam War in 1965. Thirty-three years later, he was decorated with the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] for helping to rescue a badly wounded soldier while under enemy fire on November 15, 1965, during the [[Battle of Ia Drang]] at [[Landing Zone]] X-Ray in Vietnam.<ref>{{cite web
|first = Hal
|first = Hal
|last = Moore
|last = Moore
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===Literature===
===Literature===
Along with Lt. Gen. [[Hal Moore|Harold G. Moore]], Galloway co-wrote a detailed account of those experiences in the best-selling 1992 book, ''[[We Were Soldiers Once… And Young]]''.<ref>{{cite book
Along with Lt. Gen. [[Hal Moore|Harold G. Moore]], Galloway co-wrote a detailed account of those experiences in the best-selling 1992 book, ''[[We Were Soldiers Once… And Young]]''.<ref>{{cite book
|title= We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam
|title= We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam
|last= Moore
|last= Moore
|first= Harold
|first= Harold
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|url= https://archive.org/details/weweresoldie00moor
|url= https://archive.org/details/weweresoldie00moor
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
A sequel was released in 2008: ''[[We Were Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam]]''<ref>{{cite book
A sequel was released in 2008: ''We Were Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam''<ref>{{cite book
|title= We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
|title= We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
|last= Moore
|last= Moore
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===Narration===
===Narration===
Galloway narrated ''A Flag Between Two Families'', a [[documentary film]], based on the events of May 9, 1968, in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] by the members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry.<ref>[http://www.littlebearproductions.org/photos/index.html "A Flag Between Two Families: Photo Gallery"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070803220645/http://www.littlebearproductions.org/photos/index.html |date=August 3, 2007 }} on the website of Little Bear Productions, the film's production company. The captions of several photos identify "Joe Galloway" as the narrator of the film.</ref>
Galloway narrated ''A Flag Between Two Families'', a documentary film, based on the events of May 9, 1968, in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] by the members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry.<ref>[http://www.littlebearproductions.org/photos/index.html "A Flag Between Two Families: Photo Gallery"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070803220645/http://www.littlebearproductions.org/photos/index.html |date=August 3, 2007 }} on the website of Little Bear Productions, the film's production company. The captions of several photos identify "Joe Galloway" as the narrator of the film.</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
In 1991, Galloway received a [[National Magazine Award]] for a ''[[U.S. News]]'' cover article on the Ia Drang battles in Vietnam. In 1992, he received the New Media Award of the National VFW for his coverage of the Persian Gulf War for U.S. News. In 1999, Galloway received the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award, along with Gen. Hal Moore, for his journalism and for ''We Were Soldiers Once and Young'' at the VVA National Convention in Anaheim, California. In 2002, Galloway received the Robert Denig Award for Exceptional Service of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Assn. In 2005, he received the Tex McCrary Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fwaconsultants.homestead.com/galloway_bio.html|title=Galloway Bio}}</ref>
In 1991, Galloway received a [[National Magazine Award]] for a ''[[U.S. News]]'' cover article on the Ia Drang battles in Vietnam. In 1992, he received the New Media Award of the National VFW for his coverage of the Persian Gulf War for U.S. News. In 1999, Galloway received the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award, along with Gen. Hal Moore, for his journalism and for ''We Were Soldiers Once and Young'' at the VVA National Convention in Anaheim, California. In 2002, Galloway received the Robert Denig Award for Exceptional Service of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Assn. In 2005, he received the Tex McCrary Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fwaconsultants.homestead.com/galloway_bio.html|title=Galloway Bio}}</ref>


On May 1, 1998, Galloway was decorated with the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] with [["V" device]].<ref name="bronze" /> The medal was in recognition of his heroism on November 15, 1965, during the [[Battle of Ia Drang]],<ref name="We Were Soldiers"/> the first major battle by U.S. and North Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War. Galloway was present as a journalist. During the fighting, he risked his own safety to assist wounded soldiers. His actions are depicted in the film ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'' in which he is portrayed by actor [[Barry Pepper]]. He is the only civilian to receive the Bronze Star for combat valor for heroism in the Vietnam War from the U.S. Army.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hope|first=Hodge Seck|date=June 10, 2020|title=Military.com|work=[Military.com]|url=https://www.military.com/podcasts/left-of-boom/episode-1-civilian-who-got-bronze-star-army-ft-joe-galloway.html|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>
On May 1, 1998, Galloway was decorated with the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] with [["V" device]].<ref name="bronze" /> The medal was in recognition of his heroism on November 15, 1965, during the [[Battle of Ia Drang]],<ref name="We Were Soldiers"/> the first major battle by U.S. and North Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War. Galloway was present as a journalist. During the fighting, he risked his own safety to assist wounded soldiers. His actions are depicted in the film ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'' in which he is portrayed by actor [[Barry Pepper]]. He is the only civilian to be awarded the Bronze Star for combat valor for heroism in the Vietnam War from the U.S. Army.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hope|first=Hodge Seck|date=June 10, 2020|title=Military.com|work=[Military.com]|url=https://www.military.com/podcasts/left-of-boom/episode-1-civilian-who-got-bronze-star-army-ft-joe-galloway.html|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Galloway married his first wife, Theresa Magdalene Null, in September 1966 and they remained married until her death on January 26, 1996, from [[cancer]]. Together they had two sons, Joshua and Lee. In 1998, Galloway married Karen Metsker, daughter of Captain Thomas Metsker who was Hal Moore's Intelligence Officer and was killed in action in 1965 at the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War. After they divorced in 2003,<ref>{{cite web|last=Galloway|first=Joseph|title=A Reporter's Journal From Hell|url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0204/galloway4.htm|work=Journalism|publisher=The Digital Journalist|access-date=March 3, 2013}}</ref> he married Dr. Gracie Liem Lim Suan Tzu, a friend for more than 45 years, on May 13, 2012, in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]. In attendance at the ceremony was former U.S. Senator [[Max Cleland]] and 7th Cavalry veterans John Henry Irsfeld and Dennis Deal. The Galloways resided in Concord, North Carolina.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greensboro.com/life/vietnam-war-correspondent-and-best-selling-author-coming-to-greensboro/article_5450eb04-4257-5bac-9c90-2f5407ff4bd4.html|title=Vietnam War correspondent and best-selling author coming to Greensboro|first=Harry Thetford Special to News &|last=Record}}</ref>
Galloway married his first wife, Theresa Magdalene Null, in September 1966 and they remained married until her death on January 26, 1996, from cancer. Together they had two sons, Joshua and Lee. In 1998, Galloway married Karen Metsker, daughter of Captain Thomas Metsker who was Hal Moore's Intelligence Officer and was killed in action in 1965 at the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War. After they divorced in 2003,<ref>{{cite web|last=Galloway|first=Joseph|title=A Reporter's Journal From Hell|url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0204/galloway4.htm|work=Journalism|publisher=The Digital Journalist|access-date=March 3, 2013}}</ref> he married Dr. Gracie Liem Lim Suan Tzu, a friend for more than 45 years, on May 13, 2012, in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]. In attendance at the ceremony was former U.S. Senator [[Max Cleland]] and 7th Cavalry veterans John Henry Irsfeld and Dennis Deal. The Galloways resided in Concord, North Carolina.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greensboro.com/life/vietnam-war-correspondent-and-best-selling-author-coming-to-greensboro/article_5450eb04-4257-5bac-9c90-2f5407ff4bd4.html|title=Vietnam War correspondent and best-selling author coming to Greensboro|first=Harry Thetford Special to News &|last=Record|date=March 16, 2016 }}</ref>


Galloway died on the morning of August 18, 2021, at a hospital in [[Concord, North Carolina]]. He was 79, and suffered from a heart attack prior to his death.<ref name="WP obit"/><ref name=AP/>
Galloway died on the morning of August 18, 2021, at a hospital in [[Concord, North Carolina]]. He was 79, and suffered from a heart attack prior to his death.<ref name="WP obit"/><ref name=AP/>
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/index.ssf/2017/09/the_vietnam_war_episode_3_preview_pbs_tuesday.html 'The Vietnam War Episode 3' preview, PBS Tuesday] The Vietnam War - The River Styx
* [http://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/index.ssf/2017/09/the_vietnam_war_episode_3_preview_pbs_tuesday.html 'The Vietnam War Episode 3' preview, PBS Tuesday] The Vietnam War – The River Styx
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Jw9AZy8_M/ Joseph Galloway interviewed on ''Conversations from Penn State'']
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Jw9AZy8_M/ Joseph Galloway interviewed on ''Conversations from Penn State'']
* [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/front-center-john-callaway-we-were-soldiers-once-and-young/ Interview on ''We Were Soldiers Once... and Young''] at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
* [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/front-center-john-callaway-we-were-soldiers-once-and-young/ Interview on ''We Were Soldiers Once... and Young''] at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
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For other people named Joseph Galloway, see Joseph Galloway (disambiguation).

Joseph L. Galloway
Galloway in 2017
Born
Joseph Lee Galloway

(1941-11-13)November 13, 1941
Bryan, Texas, U.S.
DiedAugust 18, 2021(2021-08-18) (aged 79)
Concord, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
Awards

Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 – August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965.[2] From 2013 until his death, he 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 was also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers.[3]

Early life[edit]

Galloway was born in Bryan, Texas, on November 13, 1941.[4][5] His father, Joseph,[5] fought in the U.S. Army during World War II;[4] his mother was Marian Dewvall.[5] His family relocated to Refugio, Texas, after his father was employed by Humble Oil upon his return from military service. Galloway initially enrolled in community college in 1959, but dropped out after six weeks to join the Army.[4] His mother convinced him to go into journalism,[4] and he subsequently majored in the subject at Victoria College.[5]

His paternal great-grandfather James Isham Galloway lost his right leg at the Second Battle of Manassas in the American Civil War, and his maternal great-grandfather James William Reid (whose daughter married James Isham Galloway) lost his left leg at the Battle of the Wilderness. They ended up on adjoining farms. After the war, they got together once a year and went to town to buy boots. They would buy one pair and split them up, giggling over how they'd screwed the shopkeeper.

Career[edit]

Newspapers[edit]

Galloway started his career at The Victoria Advocate in Victoria, Texas, afterwards working for United Press International (UPI) in the Kansas City and Topeka bureaus. Later, he served overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in Tokyo, Vietnam, Jakarta, New Delhi, Singapore, Moscow, and Los Angeles. He worked as a reporter for UPI during the early part of Vietnam War in 1965. Thirty-three years later, he was decorated with the Bronze Star for helping to rescue a badly wounded soldier while under enemy fire on November 15, 1965, during the Battle of Ia Drang at Landing Zone X-Ray in Vietnam.[6]

Galloway retired as a weekly columnist for McClatchy Newspapers in January 2010, writing, "I have loved being a reporter; loved it when we got it right; understood it when we got it wrong...In the end, it all comes down to the people, both those you cover and those you work for, with or alongside during 50 years."[7]

Literature[edit]

Along with Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, Galloway co-wrote a detailed account of those experiences in the best-selling 1992 book, We Were Soldiers Once… And Young.[8] A sequel was released in 2008: We Were Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam[9] and Moore and Galloway gave an interview on the book at the Pritzker Military Library on September 17, 2008.[10]

In popular culture[edit]

In We Were Soldiers, a 2002 film based on his 1992 book, Galloway is portrayed by actor Barry Pepper.[4][11]

Actor Edward Burns portrayed him in the miniseries Vietnam in HD,[12] and Tommy Lee Jones played him in the 2017 film Shock and Awe.[4][11]

Narration[edit]

Galloway narrated A Flag Between Two Families, a documentary film, based on the events of May 9, 1968, in Vietnam by the members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry.[13]

Awards[edit]

In 1991, Galloway received a National Magazine Award for a U.S. News cover article on the Ia Drang battles in Vietnam. In 1992, he received the New Media Award of the National VFW for his coverage of the Persian Gulf War for U.S. News. In 1999, Galloway received the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award, along with Gen. Hal Moore, for his journalism and for We Were Soldiers Once and Young at the VVA National Convention in Anaheim, California. In 2002, Galloway received the Robert Denig Award for Exceptional Service of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Assn. In 2005, he received the Tex McCrary Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.[14]

On May 1, 1998, Galloway was decorated with the Bronze Star with "V" device.[1] The medal was in recognition of his heroism on November 15, 1965, during the Battle of Ia Drang,[2] the first major battle by U.S. and North Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War. Galloway was present as a journalist. During the fighting, he risked his own safety to assist wounded soldiers. His actions are depicted in the film We Were Soldiers in which he is portrayed by actor Barry Pepper. He is the only civilian to be awarded the Bronze Star for combat valor for heroism in the Vietnam War from the U.S. Army.[15]

Personal life[edit]

Galloway married his first wife, Theresa Magdalene Null, in September 1966 and they remained married until her death on January 26, 1996, from cancer. Together they had two sons, Joshua and Lee. In 1998, Galloway married Karen Metsker, daughter of Captain Thomas Metsker who was Hal Moore's Intelligence Officer and was killed in action in 1965 at the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War. After they divorced in 2003,[16] he married Dr. Gracie Liem Lim Suan Tzu, a friend for more than 45 years, on May 13, 2012, in Las Vegas. In attendance at the ceremony was former U.S. Senator Max Cleland and 7th Cavalry veterans John Henry Irsfeld and Dennis Deal. The Galloways resided in Concord, North Carolina.[17]

Galloway died on the morning of August 18, 2021, at a hospital in Concord, North Carolina. He was 79, and suffered from a heart attack prior to his death.[4][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Joseph L. Galloway Biography", We Were Soldiers, Open Road Integrated Media
  2. ^ a b We Were Soldiers Archived October 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine BSM Citation
  3. ^ McClatchy Newspapers [Joe Galloway "McClatchy | Joe Galloway". Archived from the original on June 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009.]
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Smith, Harrison (August 18, 2021). "Joseph Galloway, chronicler and champion of soldiers in Vietnam, dies at 79". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d Shearer, Benjamin F., ed. (2007). Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime. Vol. 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 324. ISBN 9780313334221.
  6. ^ Moore, Hal; Joseph L. Galloway. "Bios". We Were Soldiers Once... And Young. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  7. ^ Galloway, Joseph L. (January 27, 2010). "Galloway: a farewell after 50 years of newspapering". McClatchy DC. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
  8. ^ Moore, Harold; Joseph L. Galloway (1992). We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam. Random House. ISBN 0-679-41158-5.
  9. ^ Moore, Harold; Joseph L. Galloway (2008). We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam. Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-114776-0.
  10. ^ Webcast Interview Archived August 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at the Pritzker Military Library on September 17, 2008
  11. ^ a b c Biesecker, Michael (August 19, 2021). "Journalist Joe Galloway, chronicler of Vietnam War, dies". Associated Press. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  12. ^ Stuever, Hank (November 7, 2011). "War, up close and personal: 'Vietnam in HD' and 'Where Soldiers Come From'". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  13. ^ "A Flag Between Two Families: Photo Gallery" Archived August 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine on the website of Little Bear Productions, the film's production company. The captions of several photos identify "Joe Galloway" as the narrator of the film.
  14. ^ "Galloway Bio".
  15. ^ Hope, Hodge Seck (June 10, 2020). "Military.com". [Military.com]. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  16. ^ Galloway, Joseph. "A Reporter's Journal From Hell". Journalism. The Digital Journalist. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  17. ^ Record, Harry Thetford Special to News & (March 16, 2016). "Vietnam War correspondent and best-selling author coming to Greensboro".

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