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Knight Ridder's senior military correspondent Joseph Galloway joins Gary Eichten to talk about the American military. Galloway has covered wars for 40 years, and is the author of the national best-seller 

We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.

 It was made into a movie by the same name.

Knight Ridder's senior military correspondent Joseph Galloway joins Gary Eichten to talk about the American military. Galloway has covered wars for 40 years, and is the author of the national best-seller We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam. It was made into a movie by the same name.


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