Galloway's reputation was well-earned when he got out of Washington and went to see things for himself. I'd hardly call relying on E-mails as 'research'. He's a long way from Ia Drang in more ways than one.
"Galloway's reputation was well-earned when he got out of Washington and went to see things for himself. I'd hardly call relying on E-mails as 'research'. He's a long way from Ia Drang in more ways than one."
It's reading quite a lot into this second hand account of his statements to assert that he is relying on E-mails for his research. He does say that he gets confirmatory feedback from his e-mail traffic (and probably gets a lot of good leads for investigation that way too). I don't know what his travel schedule has been either. If someone here has some evidence in this regard one way or the other, it would be an interesting supplement to the story. As it is, what we have here are two unsupported hypotheses about J.G.'s reporting methodology.
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Photos of the Valley of Death that was the IA DRANG Valley of Novmeber 1965:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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