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ABC News -- Vietnam: They Were Young and Brave. The ABC "Day One" show, Forrest Sawyer moderating. 1993.

Ansen, David. "Braveheart of Darkness." Newsweek 11 March 2002: 63.

Atkinson, Michael. "Patriot Shame." Village Voice 5 March 2002. http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-03-05/film/patriot-shame/1/

The Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965) http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.653177

Battle of the Ia Drang http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Ia_Drang

Boyle, Brenda M. "Rescuing Masculinity: Captivity, Rescue and Gender in American War Narratives." Journal of American Culture 34.2 (2011): 149-60.

Builder, Carl H. , Steven C. Bankes, and Richard Nordin. "No Time For Reflections: Moore at Ia Drang." Command Concepts: A Theory Derived From the Practice of Command and Control. RAND 1999. Chapter 7.

Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. New York: Holt, 1996.

Cash, John A., John Albright, and Allan W. Sandstrum. "Fight at Ia Drang." Seven Firefights in Vietnam. Washington: The United States Army Center of Military History, 1970, 1985. http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/7-ff/Ch1.htm

Clarke, E. A. "Ideal Heroes: Nostalgic Constructions of Masculinity in Tigerland and We Were Soldiers." Literature Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 19-26.

Coleman, J.D. Pleiku, the Dawn of Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

Compendium of reviews http://www.lasalle.edu/ConnellyLibrary/specialcollections/vietnam/FilmIndex/pdf/W3085_WE_WERE_SOLDIERS.pdf

Cunneen, Joseph. "Looking back." National Catholic Reporter 22 March 2002: 14.

Day Under Fire: Vietnam War. National Geographic Channel. 2007 http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/vietnam-war/

Denby, David. "Good Guys." New Yorker 11 March 2002: 92.

Dittmar, Linda, and Gene Michaud. From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film. Ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000.

Doherty, Tom. "The New War Movies as a Moral Rearmament: Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers." Cineaste 27.3 (2002): 4-8.

Ebert, Roger. "We Were Soldiers." Chicago Sun-Times 1 March 2002. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020301/REVIEWS/203010305/1023

Eberwein, Robert. The War Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005.

Fitzgerald, John J. "The Battle of the la Drang Valley: A Comparative Analysis of Generals, the Media, and the Soldiers." OAH Magazine of History 18.5 (2004): 37-43.

Front & Center, with John Callaway, October 8, 2005. http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/front-center-with-john-callaway-37.aspx

Galloway, Joseph L. "Vietnam story: The word was the Ia Drang would be a walk. The word was wrong." U.S. News & World Report 29 October 1990. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/soldiers/vietnam_901029.htm

Galloway, Joseph L. “Fatal Victory.” U.S. News & World Report 29 October. 1990: 32â€"36.

Galloway, Joseph. "Ia Drang -- The Battle That Convinced Ho Chi Minh He Could Win ." Vietnam 18 October 2010. http://www.historynet.com/ia-drang-where-battlefield-losses-convinced-ho-giap-and-mcnamara-the-u-s-could-never-win.htm

Gates, Philippa. "'Fighting the Good Fight': The Real and the Moral in the Contemporary Hollywood Combat Film." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.4 (2005): 297-310.

Gwin, S. Lawrence, Jr. "Ambush at Albany." Vietnam October 1990.

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Ballantine, 1993.

Hasenauer, Heike. "We Were Soldiers." Soldiers 57.3 (Mar 2002): 26-32.

Haun, Harry. "Man of War: Wallace's We Were Soldiers Recalls Key Vietnam Skirmish." Film Journal International 105.3 (2002): 10-12, 42.

Hellmann, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

Herr, Michael. Dispatches. 1977. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Howe, Desson. “‘Soldiers’: A fresh look at an old war.” Washington Post 1 March 2002: T45.

Hunter, Stephen. “‘We were soldiers’: Aiming high but hitting the gut.” Washington Post 1 March 2002: C1.

Hunter, Stephen. “The director, on a mission; ‘We were soldiers’ is personal; Randall Wallace fought to keep it so.” Washington Post 3 March 2002: G1.

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Kinnard, Lt. Gen. Harry W. O. “A Victory in the Ia Drang: The Triumph of a Concept.” Army September 1967: 71â€"91.

LaSalle, Mick. "They were heroes / 'We Were Soldiers' shows the full horror of Vietnam and the full humanity of those who fought it." San Francisco Chronicle 1 March 2002. http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/They-were-heroes-We-Were-Soldiers-shows-the-2868519.php

Lutz, R. C. "Transformation of Trauma without Rehabilitating Failure: The Dual Attempt at Reshaping America's Memory of the War in Viet Nam in Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers." At the Interface: Continuity and Transformation in Culture and Politics. Ed. Joss Hands and Eugenia Siapera. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

LZ X-Ray http://www.lzxray.com/

Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

McManus, John F. "Steadfast fighter for freedom." New American 6 May 2002: 37-39.

Meroney, John. "Vietnam, with less angst and alienation." American Enterprise 13.2 (2002): 50.

Moore, Harold G, and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once And Young: Ia Drang, the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1992.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York, Penguin, 1991.

Petrakis, John. "Soldiers at Work." Christian Century 13-20 March: 47.

Pierce, Charles P. "(Mel) Gibson." Esquire February 2002: 62-69.

Pierce, Kenneth R. "The Battle of the Ia Drang Valley." Military Review. 69.1 (1989): 87-97.

Prats, Armando José. "Last Stand at the Ia Drang Valley: Memory, Mission, and the Shape of Victory in We Were Soldiers." Arizona Quarterly 62.2 (2006): 99-144.

Pribbenow, Merle L. "The Fog of War: the Vietnamese View of the la Drang Battle." Military Review 81.1 (2001): 93-98.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Russell, Jamie. "We Were Soldiers." Sight and Sound 12.4 (2002): 63-64.

Schaller, Michael. "We Were Soldiers." Journal of American History. 89.3 (2002): 1173-74.

Schogol, Jeff. "LZ Albany: The forgotten battle." The Ruptured Duck: A Blog for Veterans and Those Who Will Be. November 16, 2011. http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-ruptured-duck/the-ruptured-duck-1.160117/lz-albany-the-forgotten-battle-1.160992

Scott, A. O. "Early Vietnam, Mission Murky." New York Times 1 March 2002.

Sharrett, Christopher. "Hollywood and the New Militarism." USA Today May 2002: 37.

Smith Jack P. Sandbag For A Machine Gun: Jack P. Smith on the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley and the Legacy of the Vietnam War. http://www.mishalov.com/death_ia_drang_valley.html

Smith, Jack. "Death in the Ia Drang Valley." Saturday Evening Post 28 January 1967. 80-85. http://www.vietnamwall.org/news.php?id=1

Summers Jr., Harry G. "The Bitter Triumph of Ia Drang." American Heritage. 35.2 (1984): 51.

Swager, Brent. "Rescue at LZ Albany." Vietnam October 1999. http://www.historynet.com/rescue-at-lz-albany.htm

Turner, Fred. "Benevolent Soldier, Rotten War." Chronicle of Higher Education 22 March 2002: B16.

Van Hieu, Nguyen. http://www.generalhieu.com/index-3.html

Van Hieu, Nguyen. What Really Happened at Ia Drang Battle http://www.generalhieu.com/e66iadrang-2.htm

Vietnam in HD. History Channel. 2011. http://www.history.com/shows/vietnam-in-hd

Webb, James. Fields of Fire. 1978. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Weber, Cynthia. Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics, and Film. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Wetta, Frank Joseph, and Martin A. Novelli. "'Now a Major Motion Picture': War Films and Hollywood's New Patriotism." Journal of Military History 67.3 (2003): 861-82.

Young, Marilyn Blatt. "In the Combat Zone." Radical History Review 85 (Winter 2003): 253-64.