USMCCCA stalwart Joe Galloway’s “They Were Soldiers”slated for May release
Honorary Life Member, Joe Galloway
The book, “They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans” to come out next month co-authored by Marvin J. Wolf.
One of our CCs’ most faithful and visible supporters — iconic war reporter and Honorary Life Member Joe Galloway — has a new tome coming out next month.
They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans, whose title alludes to Joe’s and the late Lt. Gen. Hal Moore’s military classic, We Were Soldiers Once … and Young, tells the story of 49 Vietnam veterans’ post-war service and generosity to the communities – and nation – to which they returned.
This time, Joe has teamed up with co-author Marvin J. Wolf, a fellow recipient of the USMCCCA’s Robert L. Denig Award.
Wolf, an award winning novelist and photographer, started off as an enlisted Army combat correspondent and received a battlefield commission – one of only 60 Soldiers to have achieved that distinction in the Vietnam War.
Both Marvin and Joe were awarded the Bronze Star with Combat “V” for bravery in Southeast Asia – Joe’s as a civilian war correspondent in 1965 who, under fire, protected and pulled an American soldier to safety in the fierce fighting engaged by Moore’s 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry troops in the Ia Drang Valley.
Wolf received Denig honors in 1982; Joe received his in 2001 and was nominated for the distinction by the late Maj. Robert B. “Mo” Morrisey, the Association’s only three-term president.
Of the new book, Joe said he figured the true tales told in They Were Soldiers were “long overdue” in chronicling “the (post-war) lives (Vietnam veterans) have lived and the good they have done.”
He said They Were Soldiers also “includes several very fine Marines.”
NOTE: For our still-large fistful of Marine CCs who had the opportunity to serve with Joe and Marvin in Vietnam, you’ll be pleased to learn that the muddy boots scribes live just two hours from each other in western North Carolina.