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Share This: Ballad of the Green Berets on The Ed Sullivan Show. SSG Sadler served with the 7th Special Forces Group as a Special Forces Medic. He co-wrote the Ballad The Green Berets, which would later be turned into a film starring John Wayne. Ballad of the Green Berets is a song that all Green Berets kn0w, have memorized, love, and loathe. It’s played when we don our Green Berets for the first time and our hearts are filled with pride, and it’s played when we honor a brother passing. The lyrics were written, in part, in honor of U.S. Army Specialist 5 James Gabriel, Jr., a Special For...

>> from the point of when i was commissioned and i got those silver wings, a kid from minnesota, with no college education, at that point, i felt that i had capabilities and i could do anything that i wanted to do. and i was very confident that i could do it. >> my biggest struggle when i was an adolescent was to try to find something worth doing. something to apply myself to that was appropriate. and i think for that generation, a huge task was held up for them. and it was, sure, it was scary, it took them away from their families. their lives were at risk and i think most would say they were...

Expe expectative person. i suspect whenever family relations or friends say how is frankie doing he would just say he's out in california trying to find himself. in terms of understanding or being interested in my decision to be a practicing buddhist, it never happened. i lived in a monastery for about four years and it really probably made him physically ill to imagine that i was doing something so bizarre and socially unacceptable. i think overall to be brutally honest, i have been a major disappointment to him. >> from the point of when i was commissioned and i got those silver wings, a kid...