by | Jul 10, 2012 | Stories
I remember not staying up for the lottery and going to bed instead. I felt that my student deferment was still going to take care of me for the next three years. I was living in a dorm at UK. The next morning my next door neighbor was pounding on...
by | Jul 9, 2012 | Stories
We were all gathered in the TV room of Kirwan Tower on the University of Kentucky campus to watch the draft lottery. A roommate drew a number in the low 30s, and soon joined ROTC to stay at UK. My number was 171, right in the middle range. At the time I was a writer...
by | Jul 5, 2012 | Stories
I was born in 1952 and my lottery year was 1971. Back then I was pretty much directionless. I flunked out of college in 1971 and was employed in a series of dead-end jobs. I was no fan of the war (who was?) but I lacked the initiative to try to evade the...
by | Jul 4, 2012 | Stories
in 1970, Illinois was significantly behind the national average in supplying draftees. My draft board offered some encouragement that I would not be called despite having a mid-range draft number (183). In August, however, the Selective...
by | Jun 27, 2012 | Stories
I was a student at Emory University when the lottery took place. It was my sophomore year in the fall of ’69. I was sitting in the TV room at the fraternity house (Delta Tau Delta) along with several of my brothers and remember watching...
