Richard said:
>
> Barry Sadler, who came to fame with "The Ballad of
the Green Berets,"
also
> churned out the paperback originals and my
impression was that they
sold
> well. Sadler himself led something of a hardboiled
life. He was the
> defendent in a murder trial in Tennessee and years
later was shot in
some
> Central American country. Severely injured, he was
brought back to
the
> states but died of his wounds. John Ed Bradley did a
superb magazine
piece
> on Sadler's life and strange death some years
ago.
I remember "The Ballad of the Green Beret" very well - it was
one of my favourite songs when I was 8 years old. I couldn't
wait to grow up & kill some of those evil Communists but
it never worked out that way. I've seen some of those pbo's
you mentioned at charity shops, etc.
Rene.
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