by | Mar 2, 2009 | Stories
My lottery number was 31 and I had to go through some real changes to get out of the draft. I hired a draft attorney named Michael P. His first suggestion, since my dad died in January 1971, was to try to get me out by having my mother declared dependent on her...
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...
