I was born in 1966. My brother, who is 21 years older than me, was in the Army at that time. He had been conscripted to serve during the Vietnam War. As circumstances would have it, he was badly injured in an accident before he was shipped overseas and was discharged from the Army. Two of his childhood friends weren’t so lucky (if you can call a badly broken arm lucky). They never came home. I’ve never really had to face the prospect of going to war. The next major conflict that Australia was involved in was the first Gulf [...]