No Substitute For Victory! (in Vietnam; pro-war movie poster 1970)

Click twice, it gets bigger and stupider each time.

poster advertising a pro-war documentary hosted by John Wayne, Seattle, Washington, April 1970.

The film features Barry Sadler, Green Beret sergeant who recorded the huge pro-war smash song "Ballad of the Green Berets," and Martha Raye, a comedienne long past her prime and popularity -- she starred with Chaplin in his "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947) -- now made herself something of a Living Pro-War Show-Biz Freak Clown. This niche brought her work and attention; nearly all of America's big stars were against the war.

Ballad of the Green Beret
1966
lyrics: Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
music: Robin Moore

Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret

Chorus:
Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Trained to live off natures land
Trained in combat, hand-to-hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage peak from the Green Berets

(Chorus)
Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her his last request:

"Put silver wings on my son’s chest
Make him one of America’s best
He’ll be a man they'll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret"

(Chorus)
Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green Beret