by | May 1, 2008 | Stories
I learned my lottery number on my way back from Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill, after a UNC basketball game. It was 225. I didn’t know quite what to make of it: it was high enough to make me think there was a chance I would not be...
by | Apr 30, 2008 | Stories
We watched the lottery at the Sigma Nu house. When my number came up I thought I would end up in Vietnam. I got on several waiting lists for reserves and National Guard. Joined the NC guard in Feb 1970. Left for basic training May 12. Before that I took all of my...
by | Apr 30, 2008 | Stories
Of course I recall the draft lottery well. My number was 232, but I was already a NROTC "contract" student at UNC at the time of the drawing. I graduated from Carolina as an Ensign in the Navy, commissioned by Admr. Elmo "Bud" Zumwalt, who had just...
by | Apr 26, 2008 | Stories
We all crowded into the TV room at the fraternity house and waited anxiously for the first ball to be drawn. As numbers were called out, one brother and then another would cry out "NO" or sometimes an expletive. I kept expecting my birthday to be...
by | Apr 24, 2008 | Stories
My birthday drew number 311 in the 1969 lottery while in undergraduate school. This meant that there was little to no chance of being drafted. However, when I went to dental school, this all changed. Being single meant there was a reasonable chance I could...
by | Apr 22, 2008 | Stories
It was the night of the lottery…we all gathered in a Royal Park apartment to party and watch the results..I was number 8..September 7th..1948…but we must have been cursed…all of us from Winston-Salem that went to Reynolds High…had lottery...
