by | Apr 4, 2018 | Stories
Today in 2018 I found out why I did not go to Vietnam in 1972. I entered Colorado College in 1970 amid the controversy over the war. The lottery had begun in 1969 and I knew I would get a number. I knew student deferments were toast. On August 5,1971, I pulled number...
by | Mar 27, 2018 | Stories
The lottery number changed my life – I knew I would be drafted upon graduation in June 1970. I had already accepted a job in New York, but knew I would have to borrow money for clothes and a car before getting drafted, and then would not be making enough money...
by | Mar 27, 2018 | Stories
The Vietnam War draft lottery was a watershed event in my life, as I suspect that it was for so many others. I entered the University of Missouri in the fall of 1966 as a member of the McDonnell-Douglas Co-op Program in engineering. As the oldest of four children...
by | Mar 26, 2018 | Stories
I was number 196. I graduated from Mizzou in June 1970 and was called for an army draft physical by mid-June 1970. I was advised during the physical I would probably be drafted in Sept. 1970. During August 1970 a newspaper article appeared that said in St Louis the...
by | Mar 25, 2018 | Stories
I listened to the lottery drawing on the radio and knew the birthdays of my classmates. Several of them had low numbers. Mine was 288, so I was safe. My low-numbered friends enlisted to have a choice of what they wanted to do. At the time they were saying about half...
