Okay, cum grano salis: after First World War, my great-grand-father, serving in British army, got tired of waiting to be demobilized, went AWOL and walked from France to India.https://twitter.com/amandadeibert/status/1131905210102747137 …
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Hey, you're Canadian. A lot of Canadian family stories do, though more frequently in the 1969ish period.
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Fair number of French Canadians have good desertion stories from World War I as well.
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Mine too. My dad went AWOL from the Navy to marry my mom. He used to say he made E-5 three times - twice from the bottom and once from the top.
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This is a novel that needs writing.
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My grandfather was court marshaled in WWI for throwing a tin of rations at his commanding officer’s head. The food had rotted, but the lieutenant said it was “good enough for enlisted men.” Best part: I have the actual transcript of the court martial trial.
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