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...
by | Apr 26, 2009 | Stories
There were only three TV stations in Madison at the time of the lottery. One (CBS) was a VHF station and the other two (ABC and NBC) were UHF stations. The only TV to which I had access was VHF only. At the time the stations took their commitment to broadcast what was...
by | Apr 21, 2009 | Stories
I was in college at UCLA when they did the lottery. I graduated in June, 1971 & was immediately contacted about taking a physical at the Alameda Naval Air Station in Oakland. I had been accepted to a Ph.D. program at Cal. My wife & I were moving to Berkeley...
by | Apr 20, 2009 | Stories
Life has its twists and turns and I am not sure what the grand plan is, but this is my story. I was a senior at UCLA and would have been drafted as my lottery number was 80. But in the fall of 1970 I developed cancer. I had two surgeries and three years of...
