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Tour Of Duty Quotes

Two best friends traveled from the Burdekin in North Queensland sometime in the 1960s and walked into the Union and fell in love with Grace. Tom finch was the smarter talker of the two and won first round, marrying her before his name came up in the lottery sending him to Vietnam on a tour of duty. He never returned. The heartbroken, patient one, Bill Mackee, grieved a best friend and married the love of his life, adopting the twins when they were four years old.
- Melina Marchetta

... I thought that because my father was military, I was, too... I'd treated my life there... like a tour of duty, and... the only reason I was leaving was that my year was up.
- Leah Stewart

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