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A soldier’s tour of duty

FROM 1965 to 1972, all Australian 20-year-old men were required to register for national service. Names of potential conscripts were selected by a birthday ballot, where numbered wooden marbles were drawn by lottery from a barrel. When marbles were drawn from the wooden barrel in 1965, the number 10 came out which happened to be […]

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