The Longest War: Barry Sadler, Green Beret

The Longest War: Barry Sadler, Green Beret

EXCERPT: "It is September 8, 1989, and Barry Allen Sadler, singer,
songwriter, author and former Green Beret lies close to death in a
Guatemala City hospital. On his way home in a cab from a day of
drinking and carousing he was shot. A victim of robbery,
assassination, or general bad luck is uncertain. What is certain,
somewhere along the Antigua Highway a jacketed round entered his
skull just above his ear and plowed through his brain destroying one
third of it. The cabby says Sadler’s .380 Pietro Berretta pistol was
out and went off. So does the young senorita riding with Barry..."

http://www.sizemoremusic.com/sadler_history.htm

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Otis Willie
Associate Librarian
The American War Library
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