by | Oct 31, 2025 | Stories
Got drafted…refused to take the oath and step over the yellow line. The induction station in Dallas called the Pentagon to see what to do with me. Then they just sent me home. People forget you cannot be sent to prison until you are actually convicted of a crime...
by | Oct 31, 2025 | Stories
Listened on radio but had to leave before my number was reached, to go to work at a campus basketball game. Read the newspaper list in class the next morning. Woman next to me was appalled at the high number I drew–her husband’s number was low, and she...
by | Jul 25, 2025 | Stories
I was born September 14, 1946. I had a student deferment which I lost in 1969. By the time of the first draft lottery, I was classified I-A and had already passed my physical. At the time, the CIA was experimenting with the psychedelic drug LSD, and I had done some...
by | May 7, 2025 | Stories
I was a Senior in college with a student draft deferment during the first draft lottery, December 1, 1969. My birthday was the 1st one out of the rotating drum – September 14th. I called the draft board the next morning and was advised that they routinely wait...
by | Dec 19, 2024 | Stories
Applied for Conscientious Objector, nonmilitary. Was somehow granted I-O classification at Santa Ana, Ca draft board in Orange County, even though this draft board was the toughest board in the country, run by far-right Republicans who turned down CO requests over and...
