On this episode of Our American Stories, We Were Soldiers is a motion picture about the Vietnam War, written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and journalist Joseph L. Galloway, the film tells the story of the Battle of Ia Drang, one of the first major conflicts between American and North Vietnamese forces. Randall Wallace himself shares how the film came to be, and why Vietnam vets trusted him with it.

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