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...
by | Apr 26, 2010 | Stories
I did not feel that my lottery number was high enough. I had a wife and baby, but that did not defer me since I had had a student deferment. All the army reserves were full and had waiting lists. One of my fellow management trainees told me about a Marine Corps...
by | Apr 22, 2010 | Stories
So in my first year at Queens college I "win" the lottery with No. 74. My friends and I celebrate our particular luck at our annual beach football game with our sweatshirts showing our numbers, clearly the soon to be dead (low numbers) against the long...
