by | May 21, 2008 | Stories
Don’t recall my exact lottery number. Believe it was in the 30s. I made a genius move and enlisted in the USN for 4 years…3 years 48 weeks. Spent 15 – 16 months on Guam and 24 1/2 months in and out of San Diego including 2 Western Pacific...
by | May 17, 2008 | Stories
My number was 333, which was a very fortunate number, and has made me a believer in 3 (and multiples of 3) as my lucky numbers ever since. If I had lotteryed at number 1 like my friend Jim S. did, I would have tried to get into grad school as fast as I could, or...
by | May 15, 2008 | Stories
I was enrolled in Navy ROTC so my low draft number was irrelevant. Ever since a Boy Scout trip to Norfolk Naval Station, I had wanted to be a naval officer. I spent the summer after my graduation/commissioning at Brunswick, Georgia attending Combat...
by | May 14, 2008 | Stories
I forgot the date of the lottery, so while the birthdates were being picked, I was playing pinball at a local Chapel Hill pub, oblivious that my future was playing out on tv. The next day (I believe) I saw the list of 365 scroll down my tv, and was astounded when mine...
by | May 14, 2008 | Stories
My story is very simple. I received a number that required me to go through the process of being possibly drafted. I have always had serious migraine headaches so I was fortunately dismissed with a 4-F status. I disagreed with our government’s policy...
by | May 12, 2008 | Stories
I was a junior at UNC and remember sitting in my dorm room with several friends, watching on TV as the numbers were called during that first lottery. A lot of "dark humor" filled the room as we waited. Among my friends in the room, I turned out to have the...
