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To this day, Lynne Moore can’t stand to watch images from July 20, 1969, of the first humans walking on the moon.

Her husband, Private Ray Moore, was killed in action in the Vietnam War that week.

And so rather than evoking a sense of wonder, the moon landing reminds her of army officials arriving to break the bad news at her mother’s house in Kilsyth, in Melbourne’s east, which she was visiting.

“It brings back the knock on the door,” Lynne says. “I have to walk away.”

War widows, she says, were expected to get on…

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