Joseph L. Galloway

Joseph L. Galloway
Joe Galloway (center) being awarded an honorary membership with the U.S. Army Medical Department Regiment, 2009
Born	Joseph Lee Galloway (1941-11-13)November 13, 1941 Refugio, Texas
Occupation	Journalist, author
Notable credit(s)	Awarded the National Magazine Award in 1991 Awarded the New Media Award of the National VFW for coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1992 Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965

Joseph Lee "Joe" Galloway (born November 13, 1941), is an American newspaper correspondent and columnist.

Since 2013, he has worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War scheduled to be broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He is the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers.

During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998, for carrying a badly wounded man to safety while he was under enemy fire in 1965.

Galloway is a native of Refugio, Texas. His first wife, Theresa M. Galloway (May 12, 1948 – January 26, 1996), died of cancer. They had two sons, Joshua and Lee. In 1998, Galloway married Karen Metsker. After they divorced in 2003, he married Dr. Gracie Liem Lim Suan Tzu, a friend for more than 45 years, on May 13, 2012, in Las Vegas. In attendance at the ceremony was former U.S. Senator Max Cleland and 7th Cavalry veterans John Henry Irsfeld and Dennis Deal. Mr. and Mrs. Galloway now reside in Concord, North Carolina.

Galloway started his career at the The Victoria Advocate in Victoria, Texas, afterwards working for United Press International (UPI) in the Kansas City and Topeka bureaus. Later, he served overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in Tokyo, Vietnam, Jakarta, New Delhi, Singapore, Moscow, and Los Angeles. He worked as a reporter for UPI during the early part of Vietnam War in 1965. Thirty-three years later, he was decorated with the Bronze Star for helping to rescue a badly wounded soldier while under enemy fire on November 15, 1965, during the battle at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley.