Julia Compton Moore

The wife of an Army colonel during the Vietnam era, Moore was appalled by the way the military notified families of soldiers' deaths: by sending a telegram to the family via taxi. She demanded of the base commander a list of families who would get telegrams, and followed the taxi around so no one would be alone when they got a notice. Her successful campaign to change the notification method was chronicled in a 2002 movie We Were Soldiers, based on a book she wrote with her husband. She died April 18 from cancer. She was 75. From This is True for 18 April 2004 Suggestions for further reading: We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War... by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Amazon Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Hal Moore's Air Cavalry get dumped in the middle of hell shortly after arriving in Vietnam. "Find the enemy and kill 'em" are his brief, straightforward and no nonsense orders. He and his troopers move out and land at Landing Zone X-ray at the base o...   We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War ... by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Amazon Price: $19.80 Customer Review: This is the first book I have read on the Vietnam War. Being from the 60's generation and having watched the war unfold every night on TV, it haunted me as being the most tragic war in our country's history. Last year I visited the Vietnam Memorial a...   We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Amazon Price: Customer Review: First, Hal Moore is one of my personal heros. I would follow him into combat anytime. His book is a true accounting of America's first "official" engagement of the Vietnam Conflict (War). Against a far superior force in numbers, Col. Moore's 1/7th Ca...   We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War ... by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Amazon Price: Customer Review: I am very disappointed in this purchase as it was a broken item and the seller has yet to make it right. After contacting him and returning the product I have yet to receive the credit deserved for this product. The last tape is broken and cannot b...   WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND YOUNG THE BATTLE OF LA DRANG by Lt. Gen. Harold G. and Galloway, Joseph L. Moore Amazon Price:   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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