E10: Purple Heart and Emmy Award Winner Ronnie Guyer on We Were Soldiers

 In a special interview at the Ameritocracy Studio in LA, Troy Edgar sits down with Vietnam veteran and Emmy Award winner Ronnie Guyer as he recounts his time at the Battle of Ia Drang Valley serving under the legendary Army Lt. Col. Hal Moore as immortalized in the movie “We Were Soldiers” starring Mel Gibson. Ronnie also reflects on the significance of receiving one of the military’s prestigious medals of merit, the Purple Heart. 

A few days after this recording Fort Benning was renamed to Fort Moore to honor Army Lt. Col Hal Moore and his wife Julia for their dedication to Soldiers and their families. 

The late Army Lt. Col. Moore penned his account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in the book We Were Soldiers Once…and Young.