The U.S. Army Band "Country Roads" honors the legacy of the Special Forces with a heartfelt performance of "Ballad ... by Green Beret Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, the song became an enduring tribute ...

Speakers at the ceremony told story after story of a man who took part in the first HALO (High Altitude, Low Opening) combat jump into enemy territory in Vietnam ... Ballad of the Green Berets." ...

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold something over two million ... for months while Sadler plays medic and sings some more in Vietnam. An ABC film crew happens by the camp and records Sadler ...

Joan Baez was one of the great protest singers of the ’60s, and her 1967 album Joan concludes with the haunting ballad ... former Green Beret who, following his return home from Vietnam ...

The war songs of the twentieth century can be lumped into three major groupings. There are the professionally written bolsterers of homefront morale whose archetypes are Iver Novello's Keep the ...

"Green Berets" was trounced by critics. Most people loathed it. The drama was about the (then still active) Vietnam War ... In an interview with the Valley Tribute (transcribed by MeTV), Takei ...