N o film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiq ...

U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby defend a firebase during the Vietnam war. War correspondent George Beckwith accompanies Kirby and objects to ...

Robin Moore, who wrote the book The Green Berets (which became a John Wayne movie in 1968), helped Sadler winnow the song down to a manageable length. The song took off, and Sadler became a ...