false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201279703m/1689682.jpg 1689682 4 There were no homecoming parades for the million men and women who served in the longest war America ever fought...the only war it has ever lost. This is a book about 65 of those nearly forgotten men who soldiered in the late 1960s in a gook-hunting, dirt-eating, dog-soldiering infantry unit called Charlie Company. <P>They were boys then, 19 or 20 years old on the average. The army snatched them up out of small towns, suited them up as soldiers and sent them off to a place they could not locate on a map to fight a war they did not understand. <P>CHARLIE COMPANY is not a military history. It is not a record of battles or a moral commentary. It is instead a chess game viewed by the pawns. It is a collective memoir of the war and the homecoming, filtered through time and pain, anger and guilt, bitterness and forgetfulness. 1686514 3 1983 Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us (A Newsweek book) total:15|5:4|4:5|3:5|2:1| 15 57 26 5 5 0 false false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon Sep 07 18:52:05 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 19:09:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983 Wed Jun 03 07:57:10 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 05:17:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 12 00:17:02 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 10 17:38:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 19 21:34:59 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 07:45:43 -0800 2008
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