by | Jan 24, 2009 | Stories
I was in my 4th year of a Ph.D program at Wisconsin at that time, with a II-S deferment. My lottery number was 252. Some of my friends weren’t as lucky. One of them left for Canada, where he lives today. Another was drafted and served a tour in Vietnam,...
by | Jan 23, 2009 | Stories
I don’t recall my lottery number but I do remember that I was very concerned and very anti-war. In the summer of 1963 I met and fell in love with a lovely woman from Madison. We dated for eight months and decided to marry, and scheduled the wedding day for a...
by | Jan 19, 2009 | Stories
I was attending a Methodist seminary but had decided that the ministry wasn’t for me. I wanted to become a city planner but knew that I would be drafted as soon as my status changed. I had taken the Air Force OCS test just before the lottery took...
by | Jan 18, 2009 | Stories
Mine is not a long story. All I remember is that I was in my fourth year in school at the University of Wisconsin. I had one more year of Pharmacy School. I had already had two friends from Pulaski High School die over there and to tell you the truth I didn’t...
by | Jan 17, 2009 | Stories
In December 1969, I was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, Marathon County Center. My study habits were poor and my grades reflected that. When lottery number 83 was drawn for my birthday, I felt that military service via the draft...
by | Jan 16, 2009 | Stories
I remember the draft lottery in 1970. I was a Sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bunch of us were sitting around the TV in the fraternity house waiting for our numbers to come up. When my number was called, 273, I kept thinking that it...
