Sadler, ‘Green Berets’ Composer, Still in Coma

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Barry Sadler, who wrote and recorded the Vietnam-era song “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” remains in a coma and in critical condition but appears to be improving, his agent said Thursday.

“He is improving every day,” literary agent Bob Robison said. “They are not saying if he will come out of the coma, the are saying when. The doctors feel he will come out of it fairly soon.”