CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Joe Galloway, whose nearly 50 years as a journalist have included on-the-scene coverage of many conflicts including Vietnam, Kuwait and Iraq, will speak on “Honoring Our Troops” Monday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Galloway, whose column on military and national security affairs appears every Monday in the “Corpus Christi Caller-Times,” recently retired as senior military correspondent at Knight Ridder. Galloway was a special consultant to Gen. Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001 and 2002 and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Galloway “the finest combat correspondent of our generation---a soldier’s reporter and a soldier’s friend.”

In 1992, Galloway co-authored “We Were Soldiers Once… And Young,” with retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, which chronicles the first major battle between 450 American forces and more than 2,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965. Galloway, a 24-year-old war correspondent at the time, was later decorated with the Bronze Star Medal with V for courage under fire in recognition of his bravery in rescuing wounded soldiers in that battle. His is the only medal of valor the U.S. Army awarded to a civilian for actions during the Vietnam War.

“We Were Soldier Once… and Young” became a bestseller and in 2002 was made into the movie “We Were Soldiers” starring actor Mel Gibson. The book is presently available in six languages with more than 1.2 million copies in print.
Galloway also co-authored “Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War” for Times Books. His latest collaboration with Moore, “We are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam,” is due for release in April 2008.

A native of Refugio, Texas, Galloway spent 22 years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and nearly 20 years as a senior editor and senior writer for “U.S. News & World Report.” He joined Knight Ridder in the fall of 2002.

Galloway’s overseas postings include tours in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Singapore and three years as UPI bureau chief in Moscow in the former Soviet Union. During the course of 15 years of foreign postings, Galloway served four tours as a war correspondent in Vietnam and also covered the 1971 India-Pakistan War and half a dozen other combat operations. In 1990-1991 Galloway covered Desert Shield/Desert Storm, riding with the 24th Infantry Division in the liberation of Kuwait.

Galloway received the National Magazine Award in 1991 for a “U.S. News” cover article on the 25th anniversary of the Ia Drang Battles, and the National News Media Award of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1992 for coverage of the Gulf War. In 2000, he received the President’s Award for the Arts of the Vietnam Veterans Association of America. In 2001, he received the Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig Award for Distinguished Service presented by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association. In 2005, he received the Abraham Lincoln Award of the Union League Club of Philadelphia, and the John Reagan (Tex) McCrary Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

Galloway is a member of the boards of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the nonprofit organization No Greater Love founded to assist the victims of war, the 1st Cavalry Division Association, the National Infantry Foundation, the School of History and Social Studies of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and the Museum of America’s Wars.