by | Jul 20, 2009 | Stories
I graduated from NC State University in 1970. Some time during my undergraduate years (1966 – 1970) I had receieved my II-S classification which allowed me a student deferment. Shortly after graduating in May of 1970 I received my I-A classification...
by | Jul 19, 2009 | Stories
I had about a year left in college before graduation when the lottery took place. My degree was to be in secondary education and it was my hope that I would be teaching in a high school somewhere in NC. I remember watching the lottery on television and...
by | Jul 17, 2009 | Stories
I was in the infamous 1969 lottery during my first senior year at NC State. My birth month was January and I ended up with a very high lottery number. But in the spring of 1967 I had signed the Army ROTC contract, so my draft lottery number didn’t matter....
by | Jul 17, 2009 | Stories
I was a senior at NC State University and very ready to get out of there. The Vietnam War made for very tense times and soldiers were getting killed. Every night on the news there was film footage of battles and the number of dead for the...
by | Jul 15, 2009 | Stories
Will never forget that night. I was at a small college in Iowa. Everyone, at least the 19 year olds, had ears glued to the radio, eyes to the tv. After the drawing, after the cheers, after the smashed tvs and radios, the bars were full; either you were...
by | Jul 14, 2009 | Stories
How did the draft lottery affect the choices I made in my life? Wow!Well, rather than graduate in Nuclear Engineering as planned in May, 1970, get married on June 6 and move to Charleston, SC, to live, raise a family and work at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, I...
