by | Aug 12, 2008 | Stories
I was a Canadian citizen living in the United States since the fifties. Back in the sixties, non-citizens still had to register with the U.S government as a landed immigrant. I don’t know why but landed immigrant males still had to register for the...
by | Aug 12, 2008 | Stories
My lottery number was high enough that I was probably safe from the draft–and I had received a scholarship to Tulane which also would have helped. But, I was sufficiently anal about all of this such that I went down to the draft board headquarters to kind of...
by | Aug 11, 2008 | Stories
I was an announcer on WRUF, the campus radio AM station at the University of Florida the night the first draft lottery was held. We broadcast the drawing live. The station didn’t play music that would appeal to college students, but I’m...
by | Aug 8, 2008 | Stories
I had #233 and it looked like they wouldn’t go past #160-180, so I felt lucky. However, does anyone else feel that this (draft and lottery) was by far the biggest sex discrimination case never filed or resolved? (Editor’s note: A lawsuit...
by | Aug 7, 2008 | Stories
I was pretty well stoned throughout this period of my life so I don’t recall the details of the lottery drawing itself. I was shacked up with my future ex above Ella’s on State in a one-bedroom flat. I know I had a fairly low number and being anti-war, it...
by | Aug 6, 2008 | Stories
The first lottery fell on a cold night in Madison. Lottery parties were the order of the day. Watching the event on TV, everyone was drinking and sweating out the results. Some said hell no, they wouldn’t go, others said they would. Fortunately for our group, no...
