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....
by | Feb 19, 2018 | Stories
In early 1968, my second attempt at college did the same thing as my first: fizzled out. However, I was then classified I-Y which supposedly meant that only when the Soviets landed at Myrtle Beach would I be pressed into military service. The I-Y classification...
