by | May 8, 2009 | Stories
I entered the US Military Academy on 3 July 1967 and was separated from the Corps on 11 June 1968, after having been admitted to UCLA. I still have a hard time explaining why I left, and it remains one of two significant regrets in my life. It seemed like a good idea...
by | May 8, 2009 | Stories
I’d hired a lawyer the previous summer to fix me up with a dubious but effective medical deferment. He said it could come back to haunt me if I ever went into politics, then as now the least of my ambitions. To this day I don’t even know what...
by | May 6, 2009 | Stories
I was attending UCLA and lived in a frat house in 1969. I had made the decision to not apply for my school deferment after being denied a conscientious objector status. I was subsequently classified I-A. I sat around a radio with my frat brothers...
by | Apr 29, 2009 | Stories
I was in my first year of law school, in Indiana at Notre Dame, when I received a lottery number for the draft. Since I was the sole male descendant in my family, I filed for and received an exemption from having to go fight in the horrible war.
by | Apr 28, 2009 | Stories
I watched in horror as my birthday was matched to 87. I decided immediately to begin attending divinity school. The divinity schools then had a great gimmick. The program was 6 years long (no one to my knowledge ever graduated) and if you were unlucky enough to...
by | Apr 27, 2009 | Stories
By the time of the first lottery I had already been "drafted." I somehow persuaded local draft board 92 that I was a conscientious objector. I was re-classified, after my successful appeal of the original denial, from I-A to I-O. That...
