On Thursday, Fort Benning will be renamed in honor of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julia. There will be a lot written and said about the Moores at this historic moment. The battlefield exploits of Moore and his men in 1965 were well documented by famed war correspondent and journalist Joe Galloway and in the 2002 Hollywood movie "We Were Soldiers." Hal Moore was a soldier’s soldier. Julia Moore was the bedrock back home during Vietnam. And Joe Galloway was a reporter’s reporter. He talked his way on the battlefield in the Ia Drang Valley. Greg and Dave Moore got to witness the special relationship between their father, a respected U.S. Army officer, and Joe Galloway, a free-lance reporter who found himself in the middle of the first major battle of the Vietnam War.
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