This week’s program is a retrospective back to 2002 and a live radio program which featured BG (RET) Grange, LTG (RET) Hal Moore, Joe Galloway (War Correspondent), Randall Wallace (Director, Producer) and others discussing experiences in the first battle of the Ia Drang Valley in South Vietnam in November, 1965.

They also discussed the film “We were Soldiers," by Randall Wallace, based on the book “We Were Soldiers Once and Young," by Moore and Galloway.

This was the first US conventional force battle of the Vietnam War and featured units of the famed, reactivated “Seventh Cavalry.”

This had been the unit that suffered defeat at the “Little Big Horn” in June, 1876 with Custer.