Outside, the sunny weather steadily had darkened during the day, through the final roll call, the 21-gun salute, the playing of “Taps” and the “Ballad of the Green Berets,” the benediction. At last, ...

In a Regimental First Formation ceremony held on Jan. 23 at the Crown Complex, a total of 167 men donned their Green Berets for the first time. The event was hosted by Col. David M. Lucas, commander ...

But on February 5, 1966, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler’s hawkish patriotic single, The Ballad Of The Green Berets/ Letter From Vietnam, entered the US chart, and Uncle Sam had a new military hero.

“The Ballad of the Green Berets” may be the most divisive song ... But this song – written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, no less – is as drecky as they come. When Osmond did it, he ...

A Mexican Senate commission this week approved the entry of U.S. Green Berets into the country ... the illegal status of some migrants with criminality,” the pope wrote. Francis did say the country ...

Green Berets are bound for Campeche to instruct Mexican marines ... or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality,” the pope wrote. Francis did say the country has a ...

She wrote that, as her ex-lover’s fame “grew ... a lover who “just kinda wasted my precious time”) and 1964’s Ballad in Plain D (on which he sang of her “parasite sister” for whom ...

Written as a slow ballad that wavers tantalizingly between ... The song was written in 1937 for 17-year-old Mitzi Green to sing in Rodgers & Hart’s musical, Babes In Arms; although the stage ...