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Colonel David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005) was a United States Army officer and journalist, who was decorated in both the Korean War and Vietnam War.
Jan 28, 2023 · David Hackworth, affectionately known as “Hack,” was a one-of-a-kind American soldier and a legend among the troops. His military acumen both on and off the battlefield are rivaled by few.
May 6, 2005 · David H. Hackworth, a much-decorated and highly unconventional former career Army officer who became a combat legend in Vietnam, then enraged his superiors by lambasting the war on national...
Jun 4, 2019 · David Haskell Hackworth was a soldier who began his Army service as a private in 1946 and retired as a colonel in 1971. During two tours in Vietnam, he amassed a collection of combat decorations that few veterans of the war equaled, much less exceeded: two Distinguished Service Crosses, seven Silver Stars and four Purple Hearts—added to his ...
Most valor-decorated US Colonel David “Hack” Hackworth’s career as a sailor, soldier, military correspondent, terrorist expert and champion of those frontline warriors at the “tip of the spear” has spanned nearly a dozen wars and conflicts, from the end of World War II into the 21st century.
May 2, 2022 · When he was still a teenager, David Hackworth decided that he wanted a life of adventure. And he certainly succeeded in accomplishing that feat. The California-born Hackworth was such a brave and determined fighter that the Army tasks him with going head to head with Viet Cong guerillas.
Hackworth: You are looking at America's most reluctant author. I did not want to write the book. But this draftee battalion meets every year at a reunion, somewhere in America. Eilhys goes to the reunions, too, but she doesn't see what I see. I see a 19-year-old face on a 55-year-old body. She sees pain, lack of closure, heavy baggage.
