by | Mar 14, 2018 | Stories
I registered for my draft card in the middle of my senior year of high school in December, 1966, and the draft was definitely on our minds when my class finished high school in 1967. All I knew was that many of my friends were going on to college and 14 of us (3 girls...
by | Mar 12, 2018 | Stories
I was a senior at Mizzou the night of the first lottery. I remember the thinking if I got 200 or above, I’d be OK. If I had been born one day earlier, my number would have been 1. If I had been born a day later, my number would have been 12. I got 175. When I...
by | Mar 3, 2018 | Stories
During the fall of 1969, I was in my second year of ROTC at the University of Missouri. I came to Mizzou as a graduate student and enrolled in ROTC after graduation from Western Michigan University. My draft board was located in Bowling Green, Ohio, and the...
by | Mar 2, 2018 | Stories
I remember the draft well. I was a senior at Mizzou. It was December 1, 1969. Mizzou was playing men’s basketball that night, a home game in Brewer Fieldhouse. It was more like a barn with wooden bleachers. The draft lottery was going to be broadcast live on the...
by | Mar 1, 2018 | Stories
There was a lottery. You were in or you were out. Not so fast! If you got No. 195, the last number which could be called, you might be in, you might be out. I waited, and finally I was the last draftee out of Buchanan County in 1970. But I had done some planning and...
by | Feb 22, 2018 | Stories
My lottery number fell in the lower third of the drawing, earning me a reclassification to I-A in my senior year at the University of Missouri and a subsequent invitation to an April 1970 draft physical at the Selective Service office on Pershing Road in Kansas City....
