by | Mar 5, 2013 | Stories
I’d marched through Cincinnati streets to the draft board and been prodded and poked and declared fit, but I had student deferments and then a teaching deferment for one year. I drew No. 348 in the lottery. I always remembered that number because it matched...
by | Mar 4, 2013 | Stories
I had a date the night of the lottery and we went to the Beechwood Cinema for a show. We left after the movie was over and went to a friend’s apartment close by. All there were watching the lottery drawing with bated breath! Eventually everyone but me had...
by | Mar 3, 2013 | Stories
I was a Senior majoring in wildlife management at the University of Georgia. I lived in Tucker Hall, a dormitory consisting mainly of Agricultural and Forestry students. The evening of the lottery, everyone was crowded around a radio. There must have...
by | Feb 23, 2013 | Stories
Not being much of a gambler, I’ve never bought a lottery ticket of any sort over the years. However, the draft lottery was not something which I could choose not to participate in. I was in my sophomore year in college when the lottery was conducted....
by | Feb 14, 2013 | Stories
On 29 November, 1969, I began my two years of service as a 2LT in the US Army Field Artillery. Two days later, the first draft lottery was conducted. My number was 253. I read about the lottery in the newspaper while I was at Fort Sill, OK. I just laughed about...
