by | Jan 28, 2014 | Stories
Before the date of the first lottery I had already been in Air Force ROTC for four years. After graduating in 1969 I was slated to be commissioned in the Air Force. However, on the morning of my signing up I decided I actually did not want to be...
by | Jan 20, 2014 | Stories
I was living in the fraternity house when the first lottery was held. Everybody put a dollar (or five or whatever it was) in a pot and whoever had the lowest number "won" the money. As you might imagine, it was a pot no one wanted to win. My friend...
by | Jan 19, 2014 | Stories
I entered the University of Georgia as a freshman in the fall of 1967. I was 17 years old when I walked into my first ROTC class. Sgt. Lunsford strode in and declared, "Firepower is bullets hitting people!" That’s all I remember...
by | Jan 16, 2014 | Stories
I remember being at the fraternity house that night in 1969 when the lottery took place. I was a sophomore at UGA. My number was actually a good one (228), but I didn’t realize how good it was. A good friend of my father’s was on the...
by | Jan 10, 2014 | Stories
I was a freshman at Georgia on scholastic probation after the first quarter. I needed to bring my grades up by the end of the second quarter or I was toast…surely heading to Vietnam! I was under a lot of pressure grade-wise when...
