Cost
The cost of the statue in 1969 was $100,000. Both John Wayne, co-director and star of the 1968 film, The Green Berets, and Barry Sadler, composer of the song, “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” each donated $5,000 toward the creation of the statue as a symbol of the, “Quiet Professionals.” Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense at the time, donated $1,000. Special Forces soldiers from all over the world donated the remaining money needed to build the statue.
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