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...
by | May 12, 2008 | Stories
I arrived at UNC in the fall of 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War. My father, a former drafted combat infantryman in WWII, advised me to join the Navy and be an officer. I was accepted into NROTC and began my Navy training. At the beginning...
by | May 8, 2008 | Stories
I remember listening with some friends as the numbers were drawn and finally mine came up – 263. Oh shit I said. I would have never had to go. You see I was listening at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. I had been in the Army 11 months. Oh...
