by | Dec 12, 2008 | Stories
My dominant thought when the numbers were drawn was to focus on staying in school. I always felt somehow the draft wouldn’t grab me. I remember hearing of a frat boy throwing a television at the wall and others getting "fall down" drunk. 119 was a...
by | Dec 11, 2008 | Stories
Truthfully, I don’t actually remember my specific lottery number, just that it was rather high (near the likely breakpoint for call-ups). I was already a university student so my original draft status of 1-A-O granted when I turned 18 for religious...
by | Dec 9, 2008 | Stories
When the lottery began I was an Army Captain on extended leave from the military attending law school at the University of Florida. As a consequence the lottery had no impact on me. Not so my fellow law students who were in a state of panic as they saw...
by | Dec 8, 2008 | Stories
I entered graduate school at UW-Madison in Fall, 1967, and was married in the summer of 1968. A wedding present from Uncle Sam was a low draft number and induction proceedings started the next year, I think. My physical didn’t exclude me (Darn!) but when I went...
by | Dec 8, 2008 | Stories
I had a student deferment until the lottery was implemented. In December of 1969 I was in my first year of law school at the University of Wisconsin. In early 1970 the 826th Ordinance unit of the U.S. Army Reserves, headquartered in Madison, returned...
