Well, Kipling *did* write the one about the Roman Centurion who stayed...
One of my uncles - and quite a favourite one, too - married my mother's sister just after the war. They were both working on the same farm, and he had to borrow the farmer's second-best suit to get married in. She was a Land Girl; he was a German prisoner-of-war.
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Date: 2008-07-15 07:19 pm (UTC)One of my uncles - and quite a favourite one, too - married my mother's sister just after the war. They were both working on the same farm, and he had to borrow the farmer's second-best suit to get married in. She was a Land Girl; he was a German prisoner-of-war.