Retired Lieutenant General Hal Moore passes away at 94. In a report at Stars and Stripes, he died in his sleep at this home in Auburn, Alabama, just two days shy of his 95th birthday. He is famous for leading American soldiers in the first large scale engagements against the North Vietnamese that first saw the intensive use of the M16 rifle in the Battle of La Drang in 1965.

He wrote the book about the battle with Joseph Galloway, called "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" that was turned into a movie called "We Were Soldiers" starring Mel Gibson.