1994 VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL DOLLAR

Joseph L. Galloway, co-author with Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore of "We Were Soldiers Once and Young" has died. The 1992 book (and 2002 movie) is about the Nov. 16-17 Vietnam battle of Ia Drang. The names of those who died there are on Panel 3E of The Wall. Part of that panel - Lines 66 through 79 -- is on the obverse of the 1994 Vietnam Veterans Memorial dollar.

Of 21 discernible names on the commemorative silver dollar, 17 men died at Ia Drang. Sixteen of those 17 died during the 16-hour battle in and near a football-field size clearing called Landing Zone Albany. The book details the battle in minute-by-minute detail. It's chilling to read the book while holding the coin. Charles W. Bass, for example, was the first man to die at Landing Zone Albany about 1:10 p.m., Nov. 17, 1965. "I hear Vietnamese talking," Bass said moments before the attack began, Moore wrote.

Years ago I put together a PowerPoint about the coin. Len Augsburger just uploaded it to the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Here's a link to the Chicago Sun Times obituary for Galloway:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2021/8/18/22631604/joe-galloway-dead-journalist-chronicler-of-vietnam-war-was-79-obituary-books-movies

To read the presentation on NNP, see:
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dollar (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/604913)

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