Editing Hal Moore (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:LTG(R) Hal Moore at West Point 10 May 2010.JPG|thumb|200px|Moore at the [[United States Military Academy]], May 2010]]
While assigned to Fort Bragg, Moore met [[Julia Compton Moore|Julia B. Compton]], the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Louis J. Compton. Julia was a student enrolled at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], North Carolina and was visiting her parents at Fort Bragg.<ref name="Guardia pg30"/><ref name="Moore/Galloway(2008)217">{{Harvp|Moore|Galloway|2008|p=[https://archive.org/details/wearesoldierssti0000moor/page/217/mode/2up 217]}}</ref> They were married at the Fort Bragg main post chapel on November 22, 1949.<ref name="Moore/Galloway(2008)217" /><ref name=Guardia54>Guardia, p. 54</ref> The Moores had five children, Greg Moore, Steve Moore, Julie Moore Orlowski, Cecile Moore Rainey, and David Moore,<ref name="ledgerenquirerobit">{{cite news|title=Julia Compton Moore Obituary|work=[[Columbus Ledger-Enquirer]] |date=April 21, 2004|url=http://www.legacy.com/Ledger-Enquirer/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=2155032|access-date=April 29, 2007}}</ref> as well as twelve grandchildren.<ref name="Gathering of Eagles biography"/> Two of their sons are career U.S. Army officers: one a retired colonel and another a retired lieutenant colonel.<ref name="Moore/Galloway(2008)220-221">Moore and Galloway (2008), pp. 220–221</ref>

After his retirement in 1977, Moore served as the Executive President of the [[Crested Butte Mountain Resort|Crested Butte Ski Area]], [[Colorado]]. In June 2009, the 87-year-old Moore attended the opening of the [[National Infantry Museum]] in [[Columbus, Georgia]]. One of the featured exhibits of the museum is a life-size [[diorama]] of L.Z. X-Ray from the Battle of Ia Drang.<ref name="Museum">{{cite news |author=Williams, Chuck | url=http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/753548.html |title=Infantry Museum's '100 Yards' Exhibit Touches Veterans | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621110707/http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/753548.html |archive-date=June 21, 2009 | work=[[Columbus Ledger-Enquirer]] | date=June 19, 2009}}</ref><ref name="gallowayvietnamstory">{{cite magazine|last=Galloway |first=Joseph L. |title=Vietnam story: The word was the Ia Drang would be a walk. The word was wrong |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |date=October 29, 1990 |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/soldiers/vietnam_901029.htm |access-date=September 11, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020911071916/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/soldiers/vietnam_901029.htm |archive-date=September 11, 2002 }}</ref>

Moore died from a [[stroke]] on February 10, 2017, three days before his 95th birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oanow.com/news/local/we-were-soldiers-hero-passes-the-celebrated-life-story-of/article_0717084e-f08a-11e6-9fcb-636a74eceacb.html |title=We Were Soldiers' hero passes; the celebrated life story of a soldier, a leader, a father |last=Turner |first=Troy |date=February 11, 2017 |website=[[Opelika-Auburn News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829093411/https://www.oanow.com/news/local/we-were-soldiers-hero-passes-the-celebrated-life-story-of/article_0717084e-f08a-11e6-9fcb-636a74eceacb.html|archive-date=2019-08-29|url-status=live|url-access=subscription |access-date=February 12, 2017}}</ref> He was buried in [[Fort Benning Main Post Cemetery]] on February 17, 2017, with full military honors and laid to rest beside his wife of 55 years who died in 2004.<ref name=Burial>{{cite web |website=YouTube| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnNMmOk16gM   |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/lnNMmOk16gM| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Graveside Service Ft Benning, GA Lt. Gen. Hal Moore  | date=February 17, 2017 |access-date=28 February 2018| format=Video}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Laid_to_Rest">{{cite web |  url= https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/military/article133467409.html | author1= Williams, Chuck  | title= Retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore remembered as great warrior, leader |website = Columbus Ledger-Enquirer  | date= 17 February 2017 | location= Columbus. GA | quote= He was buried with his wife of 55 years, Julia Compton Moore, who died in 2004}}</ref>