by | Oct 20, 2008 | Stories
I had just entered Grad School at UF the first year of the lottery. I had a student deferment throughout my undergrad studies but learned that enrollment in Grad School didn’t provide a deferment. I really didn’t know what I was going to...
by | Oct 18, 2008 | Stories
I was in Atlanta, healing from a car accident when the lottery was done. Once back in college, I learned that there were many resources there to help fail the physical, and many people willing to help. My resolve to flunk the physical was fueled by my...
by | Oct 16, 2008 | Stories
I was a graduate student on a student deferment in Iowa City. Damn, if my birthdate (Dec. 30th) didn’t come up third! I immediately got notice to report to Chicago for the physical. Because I was in Iowa, I petitioned for a change of location...
by | Oct 15, 2008 | Stories
I started college in the fall of 1964 with a student deferment. After two years, I dropped out for a year, got married and had a kid. When I reapplied for my student deferment in 1967, some kind soul, to whom I will always be grateful, sent back my application with a...
by | Oct 15, 2008 | Stories
I entered the University of Florida in 1964 and enrolled in the Army ROTC program the mandatory two years. In order to ensure myself an educational deferment to attend law school and to serve as an officer if I had to serve at all, I voluntarily enrolled in the...
by | Oct 14, 2008 | Stories
I don’t think anyone who was of draft age wouldn’t remember that night. To my knowledge it wasn’t even on TV but on the radio and if I remember correctly Ted Kennedy pulled the ping pong balls. I was at our apartment in Landmark with my roommate Bill...
