From a now-regretted counter-counterculture anthem to an oft-misunderstood ’80s hit to the song that allegedly got its singer ...

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold ... the American soldier in Vietnam. His book is dedicated to "my friends I left across the sea," and concludes with a five-page list of the names and dates ...

U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby defend a firebase during the Vietnam war. War correspondent George Beckwith accompanies Kirby and objects to ...

The context here makes all the difference. The Vietnam War was raging when “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” came out, and anti-war sentiment was just starting to bubble up in young people and ...

Barely more than two years after Green Beret Robert Howard’s heroic attempt to retrieve a severely injured lieutenant from enemy-controlled territory during the Vietnam War, he stood before ...