We Were Soldiers Once And Young Summary
We Were Soldiers Once… And Young:
I read the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… And Young’, it was about the war in Vietnam. Lt. General Harold G. Moore led the 7th cavalry into a battle against the North Vietnamese army. Joseph L. Galloway, was the first American journalist to arrive in Vietnam. Moore and Galloway are the authors of this book and they both experienced Vietnam in person.
The book started out with a lot of action, right off it talks about how a man is lying dead in the dirt. It then went on with more of the action from the middle of the book. They used action in the beginning for a hook, then went to the beginning. In the beginning, there isn’t any fighting, all preparing and training for the battle. Lt. Moore was placed in charge …show more content…
Most of the time the book is going to be better but in this situation since Moore was the author and was there, he was able to give a lot more information than Hollywood. Along with Galloway being an American journalist. Another thing that I liked was the pictures Galloway was able to take. Since he was there he took pictures of the soldiers and other people and that gave me a little bit of an idea of what the soldiers were doing while they weren’t fighting and a little e bit of what some of the Vietnamese soldiers were doing. For instance, one of them had an enemy soldier in a hole, holding a gun with his wife and child beside him because some of them brought their families with. Another one was with Hal Moore and Gen Nguyen An who was the general of the Vietnamese army. The picture was from when the two met up and talked about what they did during the battle and how they reacted to each other’s tactics. I also really liked how on every death that he could recall, he listed their name right after the sentence and mentioned where he was from and sometimes the wife. I thought that was really cool. Also at the beginning of the book, every single name of the fallen soldiers is listed as a dedication to what they did. That to me was the most special because without them so much could be changed, and Harold Moore was able to recognize
I read the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… And Young’, it was about the war in Vietnam. Lt. General Harold G. Moore led the 7th cavalry into a battle against the North Vietnamese army. Joseph L. Galloway, was the first American journalist to arrive in Vietnam. Moore and Galloway are the authors of this book and they both experienced Vietnam in person.
The book started out with a lot of action, right off it talks about how a man is lying dead in the dirt. It then went on with more of the action from the middle of the book. They used action in the beginning for a hook, then went to the beginning. In the beginning, there isn’t any fighting, all preparing and training for the battle. Lt. Moore was placed in charge …show more content…
Most of the time the book is going to be better but in this situation since Moore was the author and was there, he was able to give a lot more information than Hollywood. Along with Galloway being an American journalist. Another thing that I liked was the pictures Galloway was able to take. Since he was there he took pictures of the soldiers and other people and that gave me a little bit of an idea of what the soldiers were doing while they weren’t fighting and a little e bit of what some of the Vietnamese soldiers were doing. For instance, one of them had an enemy soldier in a hole, holding a gun with his wife and child beside him because some of them brought their families with. Another one was with Hal Moore and Gen Nguyen An who was the general of the Vietnamese army. The picture was from when the two met up and talked about what they did during the battle and how they reacted to each other’s tactics. I also really liked how on every death that he could recall, he listed their name right after the sentence and mentioned where he was from and sometimes the wife. I thought that was really cool. Also at the beginning of the book, every single name of the fallen soldiers is listed as a dedication to what they did. That to me was the most special because without them so much could be changed, and Harold Moore was able to recognize