Here is a neat story from Front Page Challenge in 1956. A WWI veteran returned to Belgium 40 years after he hid some rum.
Story and video link to original broadcast.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/w...-rum-1.4394822
I like stories like this, especially because I remember my first rum ration on Basic Officer training in 1989. "Tiny" seems to have been a little bit of a hell-raiser in his teenage military service. Looking through his service records, it's noted that he was stopped pay (day-for-day) for a few instances of AWoL, was dinged with 14 days stoppage of pay for drunkenness (though he complained about that not being legitimate at time of his discharge) and received three days Field Punishment No.1 for refusing an order and insolence to an NCO. But service was still rated as "Good" at time of discharge. My, how the times have changed.