Moore finished high school at night while working days and graduated from St. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and felt his chances were better if he was located in a larger city, he left Kentucky at the age of seventeen before finishing high school and got a job in Washington, D.C. Because he was interested in obtaining an appointment to the U.S. His father was an insurance agent of whose territory covered western Kentucky and his mother was a homemaker. Moore was born on February 13, 1922, in Bardstown, Kentucky, the eldest of four children born to Harold Sr. Moore was awarded the Order of Saint Maurice by the National Infantry Association as well as the Distinguished Graduate Award by the West Point Association of Graduates. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, which starred Mel Gibson as Moore Moore was the "honorary colonel" of the regiment. Moore is remembered as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965, during the Vietnam War. military's second-highest decoration for valor, and was the first of his West Point class (1945) to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. (Febru– February 10, 2017) was a United States Army lieutenant general and author. We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam Įxecutive Vice-President of the Crested Butte Ski Area, Colorado
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