Fighting Soldiers From the Sky

It was November 5th, 1989 when Singer-Songwriter Barry Sadler died from a massive heart attack in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, ( Kenny Chesney’s hometown), he was 49. He has an interesting story. Sadler quit high school in Leadville, Colorado in 1958 and joined the U. S. Air Force. He was honorably discharged in 1961. He then enlisted in the US Army, requesting service in the Airborne/Special Forces division. In 1965 Sadler was wounded near Pleiku, Vietnam in the Central Highlands. After His recuperation, Sadler recorded the song ” The Ballad of The Green Berets”, it became the Number 1 song in America in the Spring of 1966. Sargent Barry Sadler is the recipient of today’s Pledge of Allegiance Shout-out with Bauer’s Market and garden Center of LaCresent. DUKE !