Given the anti-war sentiment of the 60's, it was interesting this record became a #1 hit for Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, a combat medic in Vietnam with the Green Berets who was wounded in action. His Special Forces unit was on patrol and encountered the enemy, and he was stabbed with a punji stick dipped in fecal matter. He wrote this song while recovering from the infection. Barry later shot and killed in self-defense a stalker of his woman, and was later shot himself during a robbery while in Guatemala reportedly training Contra rebels. Barry never recovered and died in 1989.
Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler - Ballad Of The Green Berets
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