The rough-and-tumble Life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn\'t The Rolling Stones\' "Paint It Black" or the Beatles\' "Yellow Submarine"--it was "The Ballad of the Green Berets," a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam veteran, U.
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But Sadler\'s clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter Thompson-esque Life of booze, girls, and guns.
Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
The rough-and-tumble Life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn\'t The Rolling Stones\' "Paint It Black" or the Beatles\' "Yellow Submarine"--it was "The Ballad of the Green Berets," a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam veteran, U.
S