This is a patriot.
For a while, the sister would joke, the way some people do at a wake, and the rest of the family would smile or chuckle.
‘I’ll bet he’s just fine,’ she would say. ‘He just snuck outta the woods, found some German girl and decided to stay.’
The nephew remembers the telling.
It was easier to believe that Oliver, the only boy in a family of…
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