by | Mar 2, 2009 | Stories
I started graduate school at the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1968, with a I-A classification hanging over my head. I spent the year trying to obtain a teaching deferment for being a chemistry teaching assistant. In February of 1969 I had my...
by | Feb 27, 2009 | Stories
My recollection is that my lottery number was 2, corresponding to my birth date of April 24th. By the time the lottery came along, I was already enrolled in ROTC at UCLA and had a I-D deferment anyway. As it turned out, I did not have to go to Vietnam, but spent...
by | Feb 25, 2009 | Stories
I was a junior at UCLA and had a high lottery number (in the 300s), but one of my brothers got a lottery number under 20. I think it was 13. I was against the war, like most of my friends. The riots on campus and all over politicized the campus. ...
by | Feb 24, 2009 | Stories
I remember being none-too-pleased with the number I received in that first lottery. Fortunately I was a fairly methodical person even at that age and reacted by figuring I’d have to come up with a systematic way to approach the matter. I was a junior...
by | Feb 24, 2009 | Stories
I was a senior at UCLA during the first draft lottery, getting my bachelor’s in 1970. Throughout high school and college, I was opposed to the Vietnam War, feeling that we had no right to be involved in a civil war. I got married in the summer of...
by | Feb 23, 2009 | Stories
As of January 1969, I was re-classified from II-S to I-A, was notified for my draft physical, and passed the physical. I was expecting a draft notice at any time. I was very much opposed to the war (I was a political science major at UCLA, which gives...
