Two linking verbs are is and are.
Answer:
An anecdote is, a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
Explanation:
1. Young boys prepared for the lottery by stuffing<span> their pockets full of stones.
</span>2.The village lottery was considered to be a <span>dangerous addiction
</span>3. Slips of paper were commonly drawn from the box by <span>Mr. Summers
</span>4. Old Man Warner says towns that have quit using lotteries are <span>packs of crazy fools.
</span>The villagers finish the lottery <span>viciously.</span>
The overarching goal of international SSR assistance is to help nations offer security and justice services to their citizens in ways that are responsible to the state and its people, effective, efficient, and inexpensive, and respectful of international norms, standards, and human rights.