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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1487814" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Yes Butch, I understand what you were saying earlier when you posted the Australian casualties in Vietnam and that you were appreciative of having us there but it just astounded me to read the numbers of the US losses.</p><p></p><p>Wars were starting to look like a generational thing. Our grandfathers fought in WW1, our fathers in WW2 and many of our generation fought in Vietnam. Our National Service was a ballot thing, you registered on your 18th birthday and then periodically birth dates were drawn out of a hat and everyone with that date got called up for 2 years. I got called up but being halfway through University I was able to defer it and then towards the end a change of government abolished National Service.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1487814, member: 16453"] Yes Butch, I understand what you were saying earlier when you posted the Australian casualties in Vietnam and that you were appreciative of having us there but it just astounded me to read the numbers of the US losses. Wars were starting to look like a generational thing. Our grandfathers fought in WW1, our fathers in WW2 and many of our generation fought in Vietnam. Our National Service was a ballot thing, you registered on your 18th birthday and then periodically birth dates were drawn out of a hat and everyone with that date got called up for 2 years. I got called up but being halfway through University I was able to defer it and then towards the end a change of government abolished National Service. Ken [/QUOTE]
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