by | Apr 5, 2009 | Stories
I had already been drafted before the lottery, in 1968. I was in grad school but deferments for grad school had been eliminated. The lottery put a lot more sanity into people’s lives by removing some of the uncertainty. (I gave up on going to...
by | Apr 5, 2009 | Stories
I had been accepted to Navy OCS before the lottery. When my lottery number came up 314, I chose not to enlist. One of the biggest mistakes I ever made.
by | Apr 2, 2009 | Stories
I was a third year undergraduate at UCLA when the first lottery was held. I received No. 91 which was considered a low number at the time, and with it, an almost certainty of being drafted once my 4 year student exemption expired in June of 1971. I lived on...
by | Apr 2, 2009 | Stories
Like every other male our age at UW-Madison, my best friends and I sat up waiting to hear what our numbers would be. It was a tumoultous time and before we would graduate we would see numerous demonstrations, TA strikes, riots, would get pepper-gassed,...
by | Mar 30, 2009 | Stories
I was in my sophmore year at UCSB, listening to the first draw with my friends. None of us supported the war; we couldn’t understand why American boys our age needed to die to keep a country in SE Asia from falling to Communism. The draft seemed...
