by | Jul 23, 2009 | Stories
This is the only lottery that I ever won, and probably the only one that I ever will. I was a student in college & was reclassified because I stayed out of school for one semester and got married. That made me eligible for the lottery. Every time...
by | Jul 21, 2009 | Stories
I was an English Ed student when the lottery occurred…my birthdate, Nov. 22, was the SECOND ping pong ball to pop up…I remember thinking "Oh hell."I had a brother-in-law-to-be who was an English major at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory and he was...
by | Jul 20, 2009 | Stories
I graduated from NC State University in 1970. Some time during my undergraduate years (1966 – 1970) I had receieved my II-S classification which allowed me a student deferment. Shortly after graduating in May of 1970 I received my I-A classification...
by | Jul 19, 2009 | Stories
I had about a year left in college before graduation when the lottery took place. My degree was to be in secondary education and it was my hope that I would be teaching in a high school somewhere in NC. I remember watching the lottery on television and...
by | Jul 17, 2009 | Stories
I was in the infamous 1969 lottery during my first senior year at NC State. My birth month was January and I ended up with a very high lottery number. But in the spring of 1967 I had signed the Army ROTC contract, so my draft lottery number didn’t matter....
