Perhaps later, but during Savannah '75 '76 everything was supposedly hush hush... Some parents of the captured soldiers didn't even know their sons were at the border, let alone fighting Cubans in Angola.
Conscription for every white male had not yet been introduced.
I'm going to go watch Dunkirk now. I spoke to someone on facebook who fought in this war you are talking about. He said war is nothing like the way it is portrayed in movies. I am from Pretoria. How long have you been Steeming?