I know it was designated as a "bayonet," ribit ... 'cuz it fit on the end of an M-1 Garand ... but it's really a knife. I have my grandfather's bayonet from his service in France during World War I - THAT is a true bayonet - with a blade that is 3 or more times the length of the M5.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence