by | May 2, 2010 | Stories
While my draft number was not particularly high, I was destined to be a public school teacher anyway. In 1969 there was a teacher shortage and deferments were given. I was momentarily reclassified 1-A after my first year as a teacher, but the school...
by | Apr 29, 2010 | Stories
My lottery story is really not a lottery story at all, but one of irony and bad timing. My birthday came up No. 363, so it would seem that I was not going to be drafted. Technically, that is true. The technicality is that I had entered active duty in the US Army...
by | Apr 28, 2010 | Stories
When the lottery was announced, I was in Hong Kong, where I had gone to high school and where I had registered for the SSS at the U.S. Consulate and was appointed to Local Board 100 (Foreign). I was working as a photographer, my first job out of UNC. I was pretty busy...
by | Apr 27, 2010 | Stories
What I remember about that time was that the law seemed to change every year. When I started at UNC in 1965, being in school was all you needed for an exemption. Later in ’66 or ’67 I recall going to Greensboro to take a written exam to allow...
by | Apr 26, 2010 | Stories
I arrived at Carolina in January ’68 after serving in Vietnam from April ’66 to May of ’67 as a Marine foot soldier. The transition from Vietnam and the Marines to Chapel Hill was surreal. People were friendly and I was glad to be a student. When...
