by | Aug 26, 2008 | Stories
I went to the Oakland Center in the Fall of ’65 in response to my draft notice. I had received the Kennedy Exemption in 1963 when my girlfriend married me to help me get it. By early ’65 we were separated and divorced. Around September, I was sitting...
by | Aug 26, 2008 | Stories
I started college at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the fall of 1967. Student deferments were still being granted then, so I was ableto concentrate on my schooling. I was included in the first draft lottery, along with a few years...
by | Aug 25, 2008 | Stories
We were all nervous about the lottery. In 1969 I pulled 198 but I had a deferment until I graduated which was to be Aug 1970. By the summer of 1970, I knew that the first year (1969) took guys to, I think, 225. It was higher than my number so I...
by | Aug 23, 2008 | Stories
I was a Junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I graduated in 1971, so it may have been the 1970 lottery. I am not sure. This was after Woodstock, which I attended, and after I was arrested in New York State for a pencil thin joint of marijuana. (I spent a...
by | Aug 23, 2008 | Stories
I understood the war to be an atrocity visited upon the people of a small country defending itself against foreign invasion by colonialist powers, first the French and then by the most powerful nation on earth, my own beloved U.S.A., causing untold suffering also to...
