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...
by | Apr 19, 2009 | Stories
I was part of the 1970 draft lottery, for individuals born in 1951. My lottery number was 12. At the time I was a student at a local junior college. My draft status changed from II-S to I-A. I even went down to the local draft board...
by | Apr 19, 2009 | Stories
I had a low number so I looked into volunteering and ROTC, but I would have been a helicopter pilot and I didn’t even know how to drive a car. I had grown up overseas, so I decided to go back abroad and get my master’s degree. There was an military...
