In all of wars what prevented a soldier who country was invading another or vice versa just walk off and say screw this. Find a town to settle down in and just start a new life?
In all of wars what prevented a soldier who country was invading another or vice versa just walk off and say screw this. Find a town to settle down in and just start a new life?
This happens all the time and is called desertion.
It can be hard to start over in a new place when you don't speak the language or have any ties. You might be killed by locals if they think you're a spy. If your army caught you, they would have you killed.
Lets say WW2 and we free France what prevents me from saying fuck this I am staying in France where they at least used to love Americans?
Assuming your service ended at that point and you were free to leave, it'd certainly be easier than deserting into enemy territory. France just after WW2 was pretty war-torn and full of refugees, so it wouldn't have been the easiest place to live for the first several years at least.
there is the urban legend of Lichtenstein sending 80 soldiers to war and 81 soldiers returned
One of them was pregnant?
no, a friend acquired
Didn't the news have a story not that long ago about that one US solider who went into North Korea? I swear didn't happen that long ago. I think they kicked him out anyway, but I wonder what he's doing now.
but I wonder what he's doing now.
Back in the US facing child porn charges.
That would be Travis King.