"Lift your head and hold it high! Mighty Mike is passing by!" So sang the 250 diverse soldiers of M Company ("Mighty Mike") as they went marching to Vietnam. Their right feet hitting the snow simultaneously, they sang, "Am I right or wrong?" They had their answer three weeks later. "Great reportage," The New York Times . "Great literature," The Dallas Morning News . "A superb book," The Nation . "One must go back to Orwell for appropriate comparisons," The Washington Post . "Sack achieves the quality of ...
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"Lift your head and hold it high! Mighty Mike is passing by!" So sang the 250 diverse soldiers of M Company ("Mighty Mike") as they went marching to Vietnam. Their right feet hitting the snow simultaneously, they sang, "Am I right or wrong?" They had their answer three weeks later. "Great reportage," The New York Times . "Great literature," The Dallas Morning News . "A superb book," The Nation . "One must go back to Orwell for appropriate comparisons," The Washington Post . "Sack achieves the quality of William March's Company K in World War I, of James Jones' From Here to Eternity in World War II," The Los Angeles Times . "Absolutely the best book to come out of Vietnam," The Cleveland Press . M has been nominated by the NYU Department of Journalism as one of the top journalistic works of the twentieth century.
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Well, I have just passed the 43 yr mark of being in M Company, I was a replacement after the massacre and served with the survivors stateside in the renamed 'D" company at Ft. Dix, NJ an Infantry AIT training company. This experiment gone bad is the reason that since combat units are made up of various experienced personnel, not ALL newbies. Then I served my time in RVN, seeing the wisdom of phased in/out with most troops experienced and it was clear to me that the experiment was a killer from inception. Example, the freshmen against the seniors winner take all. Excellent writing!
