In 1965, as America prepares to send its troops into South Vietnam’s green Central Highlands, the devoted commander and seasoned paratrooper, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Moore, prepares to lead the young men of the First Battalion of the Seventh Air Cavalry into the war’s first major ground battle. Hopelessly outnumbered–four hundred soldiers against a North Vietnamese infantry division of two thousand men–Moore’s soldiers will fight in Ia Drang Valley, or the Valley of Death, during three days of inferno. We Were Soldiers displays the courage and the dignity of few men on the fierce battlefield, as well as the pain and suffering of all those who were left behind alive but, nonetheless, wounded.