Genius. It was bonded to Thor's life force so that any injury to the hammer would affect Thor. He laid it on heavy and pretty much alienated everyone in the music business, with his macho routine, said Parrish, who worked with Sadler on some music projects. He died there on November 9, 1989. He said he never met a people who love their families more than the Vietnamese, said Levona. The platform offers accurate data and conveniently links to an individual's social media profiles and other public websites with which they are associated. For a week his whereabouts were unknown to his family and friends in Nashville. Either one of which would have made a vastly larger hole than the one in Sadlers head, he said. Sadler dropped out of high school in the tenth grade in Leadville, Colorado. . ", Sang "Ballad of the Green Berets" on "The Ed Sullivan Show", Served with 7th Special Forces Group as medic in Vietnam. He protects the Asgardian borders and the Bifrost, and is forever an ally to Thor. Faglier arrived in Guatemala two days after Sadlers injury. During his time in Asgard, Odin casted Thor into the mortal guise of Siegmund to retrieve the Rhinegold Ring from the dragon Fafnir. When people have that, you know theyre . . He simply was not suicidal, and even drunk, he knew better than to fool around with a handgun, friends say. . You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Barry Sadler, in full Barry Allen Sadler, (born November 1, 1940, Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.died November 5, 1989, Murfreesboro, Tennessee), American soldier, singer, songwriter, and pulp-fiction author who is principally remembered for his best-selling song " The Ballad of the Green Berets." On one side are Sadlers wife, Levona, 44, and his children, who want Sadler returned to a medical facility in Nashville, where he had been flown from Guatemala. He also earned his GED, got a tattoo (a panther on his arm), and became a martial arts expert during his year in Japan. It was Sadlers favorite Nashville hangout, and just about every songwriter, pedal steel player and small-time hustler who hangs out there knows him. In a new biography, historian Marc Leepson tells a war story . (He (is) a hard-charging patriot and a good warrior, Brown said of Sadler.). I thought he was crazy; I was wrong. Sadlers records can not be released because of the privacy act, and Thor Sadler, who was appointed guardian in Tennessee, says he has his own reasons for refusing to make them public at this time. Friends and family say he was the victim of a robbery or an assassination attempt.