The critically-acclaimed We Were Soldiers: The Original Motion Picture Score was composed by Nick Glennie-Smith and released by Sony Music Soundtrax. The score features the Scottish dirge Sergeant MacKenzie as well as the original hymn The Mansions of the Lord co-written by Glennie-Smith and Randall Wallace.

Excerpt from the official Amazon.com Editorial Review: "Composer Nick Glennie-Smith seems to have taken his tip from ["Adagio for Strings" composer Samuel] Barber, composing and arranging an orchestral score of pensive grace and quiet, dramatic power for this Mel Gibson-Randall Wallace Vietnam war dramatization. It's music that underscores the point that the true heroism of war is often more about personal survival than it is about battlefield victory..."
Read the full review and purchase the CD here.