by | Jun 1, 2009 | Stories
A large crowd of dorm denizens gathered in the front lobby of UCLA’s Hedrick Residence Hall, anxiously awaiting the announcement of their numbers piped in over the PA system. With each birthday read someone celebrated or moaned. ...
by | May 30, 2009 | Stories
My parents were particularly nervous. Both of their boys (my older brother Mark and I) were in the very first lottery draw. They professed at the time they would move to Canada if necessary, but we also had college (San Diego State for Mark,...
by | May 29, 2009 | Stories
With a lottery number well over 300, and being enrolled at college, I was fortunate not to be forced to resist or submit to the draft. While I was active in our campus student political organization that worked against the war and for civil rights, I suffered no...
by | May 27, 2009 | Stories
My lottery number was 23. I immediately decided I had to find a way out of the selection process. With my grandfather, I started a letter writing campaign to then Senators Tunney and Cranston. Through my grandfather’s efforts and my bad knees that I only...
by | May 24, 2009 | Stories
I was a sophomore undergraduate at UCLA with a II-2 deferment. Student deferments were becoming more limited, so there was concern. When the lottery was announced I started to make preliminary arrangements to go into a local Army Reserve unit as there...
by | May 23, 2009 | Stories
The reason the stories about the lottery only go until 1972 was because the draft law only ran until June of 1973. My student deferment ran out in June of 1972, and of course Uncle Sam sent me his love note to report for my draft...
