YEARS ago, a caller suggested I should take up the case of “hundreds” of Singaporeans who had, since 1967, been staying abroad to escape national service.
Asked what his interest was, the businessman – a pawnshop owner – admitted that his own son had gone to the United States as a boy to study and had remained there, avoiding conscription.
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