Born 86 Years Ago Today in New Mexico, the Green Beret Who Scored a No. 1 Hit With a Patriotic Anthem That Outsold the Beatles
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Sgt Barry Sadler portrait with a guitar in 1966. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, the Vietnam War medic who scored a No. 1 hit with "The Ballad of the Green Betets", would have turned 86 today. The post Born 86 Years Ago Today in New Mexico, the Green Beret Who Scored a No. 1 Hit With a Patriotic Anthem That Outsold the Beatles appeared first on American Songwriter .
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