"Haros" and Modern Usage
"Haros" is the modern Greek equivalent of Charon, and usage includes the curse "you will be eaten (i.e. taken) by Haros", or "I was in the teeth of Haros" (i.e. " I was near death/very sick/badly injured.") During the Korean War, the Greek Expeditionary Force defended an outpost called Outpost Harry. The Greek soldiers who witnessed what was going on between the 10 and 16 June 1953, before they were due to go on to the hill on the 16th, referred to it as "Outpost Haros".
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