Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler hits #1 with “Ballad Of The Green Berets”

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Thanks to Hollywood, America’s collective memory of the Vietnam War is now inextricably linked with the popular music of that era. More specifically, it is linked with the music of the late-60s counterculture and antiwar movement. But opposition to the war was far from widespread back in 1966—a fact that was reflected not just in popular opinion polls, but in the pop charts, too. Near the very height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, on March 5, 1966, American popular-music fans made a #1 hit out of a song called “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler
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As a gung ho boy in the 70's I wore that album out more than once. Couldn't wait until graduation so I could enlist.
Ssgt Sadler was also an author, a great series titled "Casca the eternal mercenary".

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