by | Aug 25, 2008 | Stories
We were all nervous about the lottery. In 1969 I pulled 198 but I had a deferment until I graduated which was to be Aug 1970. By the summer of 1970, I knew that the first year (1969) took guys to, I think, 225. It was higher than my number so I...
by | Aug 23, 2008 | Stories
I was a Junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I graduated in 1971, so it may have been the 1970 lottery. I am not sure. This was after Woodstock, which I attended, and after I was arrested in New York State for a pencil thin joint of marijuana. (I spent a...
by | Aug 23, 2008 | Stories
I understood the war to be an atrocity visited upon the people of a small country defending itself against foreign invasion by colonialist powers, first the French and then by the most powerful nation on earth, my own beloved U.S.A., causing untold suffering also to...
by | Aug 23, 2008 | Stories
At No. 226, I gave up my student deferment and made myself available for the draft. I was not called. We were all very scared at the University of Florida when the numbers were announced. My roommate got a low number. He flunked his...
by | Aug 21, 2008 | Stories
I was in the lottery, but I volunteered for the Marine Corps and went through Naval Flight Training from Oct ’63 until May ’65. I then went to Vietnam twice as a Marine fighter pilot and a forward air controller. I don’t regret...
by | Aug 21, 2008 | Stories
I was a student at the Univ. of Wisconsin during the first draft lottery in 1969. I had a student deferment in any event, but I drew number 332. That meant getting drafted would have been a non-event, but it mattered not a whit as I was also a Midshipman in the...
