[UA] Archetype: The Eternal Soldier

[Eric Brennan]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stacy Stroud <sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net>
To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu <UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Archetype: The Eternal Soldier


>>THE ETERNAL SOLDIER
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>[snip archetype]
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>I like, except for the name.
>
>'Eternal Soldier' makes me think of exactly what this archetype is *not* --
>the macho-man soldier-of-fortune types who go looking for new wars every
>time peace breaks out.


How about "The Headless Thompson Gunner?"

    Or, all jokes and Warren Zevon asides aside, the "citizen-soldier,"
which is evocative of the ancient Greek arete, or the "unknown soldier?"
"The Veteran?"
    Eric