The listing, Charlie Company has ended.
They went to Vietnam, after eight short weeks of training, to fight professionals soldiers who'd been waging the war for decades. they were 18, 19, and 20 years old, innocent kids from down the block. They were member of a dirt eating combat unit called Charlie Company. They came home to a kind of embarrassed silence, as if, one of them thought, everybody was ashamed of us. they felt ignored and forgotten until 1981 when a team of newsweek correspondents came to talk to them for a major cover story and came away with enough material to fill this book.