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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zhure" data-source="post: 1519724" data-attributes="member: 308">Barry Sadler (a Green Beret who allegedly wrote the song the Ballad of the Green Beret) was the author* of a pulp series about Casca the immortal. If memory serves the character's name was Casca Rufius Longinus, and he was cursed with immortality because of his use of the spear against Jesus.(*Some sources I've read cite Sadler as a ghost author and the publisher was only cashing in on Sadler's fame at the time to boost sales. From my own analysis of the writing I'm fairly certain Keith Bulmer was the author of at least three of the circa nineteen books (1, 2, and 19) but in personal interviews Bulmer neither confirms nor denies it, instead claiming he doesn't recall. As Bulmer is in his eighties and had a stroke since then, he might not just be prevaricating. There are also those who claim Sadler didn't write Ballad of the Green Beret but was given the song as part of a PR movement during the Viet Nam conflict.)Greg</blockquote>