by | Nov 20, 2008 | Stories
In the spring of 1970 (April I think), four friends and myself gathered in an off-campus apartment to listen to the lottery drawing on the radio. On that fateful day, while I was a junior in the College of Engineering at the University of Florida, my...
by | Nov 19, 2008 | Stories
I received a high lottery number in 1970 but don’t recall the exact number, except that it put me pretty much out of harm’s way. What was curious is that I was classified as 4-F in 1969 and I didn’t expect to be in the lottery. I got the...
by | Nov 18, 2008 | Stories
I was actually drafted in January of 1969 PRIOR to the lottery. I had dropped down to 12 credits at UW-Madison which, according to the draft board, made me eligible. An acquaintance of mine was a 20-year Naval Reserve vet who pulled some strings and got me in the...
by | Nov 17, 2008 | Stories
I never had to get a student deferment — I was classified 1-Y by my draft board on the basis of my terrible eyesight (they were afraid I’d shoot the general if I ever were to lose my glasses) and a history of asthma. There was great apprehension in the...
by | Nov 12, 2008 | Stories
We sat by a crackling radio listening to the draft lottery, which could determine the status of the rest of our lives. The numbers moved very slowly. We were anti-war and had participated in the student protests, some of which became violent. It was...
by | Nov 10, 2008 | Stories
I attended UW-Milwaukee from 1965 to 1969 and then transferred to UW-Madison Law School in the summer of 1969. I had been "protected" by a II-S deferment for my undergraduate years but sometime in 1968, I recall, the undersgraduate student deferment...
