The album contains 13 popular military tunes from eight wars, with songs such as Christmas in the Trenches, The Green Fields of France, Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier. There is also a song called Michael written by Johnny McEvoy in memory of Michael Collins. Well known in folk circles and in the New Haven Irish community, McCann drew on his Irish heritage and his military experience to determine the CD's theme and to select the 13 songs from eight wars that he sings on it. McCann is a former Green Beret who served on a Special Forces A-Team in Vietnam, where he received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for Valor. He was director of public relations.
War is a two-sided coin.
World War 1 took an entire generation of men. As he sang that song, McCann said, he thought about the 3 men in his 10-man unit who were killed during the same action in which he was injured near the Cambodian border. I would get all choked up, which it difficult to sing. Few people have recorded it outside of Ireland. As a young man, Michael McCann was a Green Beret sergeant in Vietnam, was wounded, and received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for Valor.