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In the family sections, everyday moments of adjustment and belonging sit beside national memory, like the school day when Mick and Andy first hear what ANZAC Day commemorates. What role do these quieter scenes play in a story dominated by war and politics.
When going to primary school at Heyfield, Victoria, Australia, I first heard of ANZAC Day from the school teachers. Until that happened, I did not even know that there are such things as wars. When the building job of Radio Australia studio and transmitter at Mandorah, across the harbour from Darwin was completed in 1967, I (Mick) decided that Australia had been good to me (a German migrant), and so, I decided to volunteer for the Vietnam as an infantry soldier in order to repay my new country!
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In the family sections, everyday moments of adjustment and belonging sit beside national memory, like the school day when Mick and Andy first hear what ANZAC Day commemorates. What role do these quieter scenes play in a story dominated by war and politics.
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When going to primary school at Heyfield, Victoria, Australia, I first heard of ANZAC Day from the school teachers. Until that happened, I did not even know that there are such things as wars. When the building job of Radio Australia studio and transmitter at Mandorah, across the harbour from Darwin was completed in 1967, I (Mick) decided that Australia had been good to me (a German migrant), and so, I decided to volunteer for the Vietnam as an infantry soldier in order to repay my new country!
