Specifically, We Were Soldiers’ major battle scenes, which make up much of the second half of the film, were filmed around the U.S. Army grounds at Fort Hunter Liggett.

Galloway, who died Aug. 18, was the only civilian to be awarded the medal of valor in the Vietnam War. He later co-authored We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young. Originally broadcast in 1992 and 2003.

Letter: How can ‘We Were Soldiers’ be left off war movies list? It's vivid and heart-stopping I’m a Vietnam veteran, and for me, this movie is an accurate historical drama about the early ...

Napalm is one of those American inventions that you wish weren’t, sort of like Agent Orange, ... The film We Were Soldiers shows this kind of delivery (although, ...

All died, and the children were reported as enemy soldiers killed in action. The kill ratios duly rose from an already suspiciously high 24 “Vietcong” for every dead American to a completely ...

When we arrived at the hospital in Cu Chi, nobody wanted to help her because there were so many wounded soldiers and civilians already there. The local hospital was too small.