by | Aug 6, 2008 | Stories
I enlisted in the Florida National Guard in July of 1968. When the first lottery came around I was an officer candidate in the OCS academy at Camp Blanding, Florida. I went with a number of fraternity brothers (Phi Delts) from the university to watch the lottery on TV...
by | Aug 4, 2008 | Stories
My number came up at 116 and I fully expected to be drafted. The only reason that I can figure as to why I was not drafted is that the following summer I took a vacation in Canada. In order to travel out of the country as a draft age male you were required to notify...
by | Jul 31, 2008 | Stories
I happen to be driving to my girlfriend’s sorority house to pick her up from dinner. I’m listening to the radio in the car and the station music is pre-empted by the lottery secretary calling out birthdates in order...
by | Jul 25, 2008 | Stories
As the draft numbers were being drawn and announced I remember thinking that this really didn’t mean anything, assuming the war would be over before I graduated in two years. So when my number came up as 28 I wasn’t too worried. However two years later it...
by | Jul 20, 2008 | Stories
The one memory I have of the draft is that it was occurring during a UW basketball game. It was surreal seeing guys watching the game but with transistor radios glued to their ears. Every once in a while someone would stand up and either cheer or say something like Oh...
by | Jul 20, 2008 | Stories
When I graduated high school in 67 I went to UW- Madison. College gave you a deferment. Then ‘satisfactory progress to degree’, then lottery. I sat in my girlfriend’s apartment on Basset St, Madison and listened to Clyde Coffee on WISM read the...
