"The Green Berets," starring ... and Stripes military newspaper. "Life is so monotonous over there that they have nothing to put in their letters." Wayne's first visit to Vietnam came amid a ...
John Wayne's Vietnam War film The Green Berets was backed by the government, portraying a very narrow view of the controversial war.
Gaining fame through Barry Sadler's 1966 song "The Ballad of the Green Berets" and the 1968 film starring John Wayne, they became an iconic symbol of military ... roles in the Vietnam War ...