18Meanwhile, another problem remained to be solved. Previously, I had passed the medical examination at the local military district and I was declared "fit for military service". My enrolment at the university gave me the right to postpone the service to the 27th year, at the end of my studies. What to do? I had to make a decision. My father, because of the boundless trust he had always had for me, left me free in all the circumstances of my actions. At twenty-seven I would have had something else to think about and so I made my decision: in the following days I presented the application to the military district to attend the course of official cadet in the artillery weapon held in Pula, August 1, 1929 I also took this decision following another circumstance happened in my family: the bir

