He proved the warrior-poet is real when he turned a punji-stick tourniquet and a Green Beret tab into a chart-topping hymn, ...
The song "The Ballad of the Green Berets," sung by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, hit No. 1 on the U.S. music charts on this day in history, March 5, 1966. Unlike many songs that would emerge from the ...