Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler in uniform R.I.P. circa 1965-2016
by David Lee Guss
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Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler in uniform R.I.P. circa 1965-2016
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David Lee Guss
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Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler in uniform, circa 1965-2016.
"You know, just because I was in the Green Berets, some people naturally assume I'm some kind of super patriot. And others think I'm some sort of psychopathic killer; I'm neither. the Green Berets were a hot action group with a civil action program. Hell, half of us were college graduates and most of us were bilingual. We were supposed to speak the language of the country, eat the people's food, stay away from their women and try to help. As a medic, I treated everything from broken bones to tuberculosis." - Barry Sadler as told to Robert Powers.
"I said some time ago, that in two years no one would have heard of Barry Sadler. If you ask somebody now, maybe they'll say, 'oh yeah, i remember the song.'" - Barry Sadler in early 1971
After observing Barry Sadler over a period of hours in different settings my layman's opinion is that Barry had a hair trigger temper that could explode in rage on short notice. While a medic in Viet Nam he must have witnessed much trauma which marked him until his tragic end in a Guatemala, City cab and a robber, possible assassin's bullet.
Barry Sadler died in the Alvin C. York Medical Center in November 1989 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee at 49 years of age.
In his "New York Times" obituary Sadler is described as a "balladeer."
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