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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
and then there is Special Forces Sergeant Barry Sadler who had three hit songs: "The Ballad of the Green Beret", "I'm A Lucky One" and "Trooper's Lament"
This list is from Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War by James F. Dunnigna and Albert A Nofi. It simply is the best list that I have seen for the music of the Vietnam War.
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Lee,
Outstanding!
A couple of songs from the 80's sneaked in there, like "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel (1982) and "Radio V-I-E-T-N-A-M: by Bell & Shore (1989).
Aside from his songs, Barry Sadler's other claim to fame was amassing an enormous collection of Nazi and assorted WWII memorabilia. (Although to be clear he was never accused of anti-Semitism or being pro-Nazi personally, to my knowledge.) His son said, "it wasn't until I went to school that I realised the Germans
lost the war!"
Tony