by | Apr 9, 2008 | Stories
There were three reasons to get drunk that night:1. Your number was higher than 175 and you were safe from the draft,2. Your number was lower than 135 and you were going to be drafted, or3. Your number was between 135 and 175 and nothing at all was concluded by the...
by | Apr 8, 2008 | Stories
I escaped with 287; my friend was number 1.I was a sophomore in a fraternity at Carolina and many of us gathered in the "toob" room to watch the agony that night. One of the brothers sat out a semester and had lost his student deferment for a few months. He...
by | Apr 6, 2008 | Stories
In 1968-69, as an impressionable soph on the campus of UNC, I watched, read the daily Tar Heel, and observed the demonstrations for the cafeteria workers on main campus, and frankly was very confused. A 19 year-old from a middle class famiy in New Bern, NC was simply...
by | Apr 5, 2008 | Stories
My number was around 130, but that did not worry me as much as it might have because I was in school and, as a child, had a draft-proof injury when I was run over by a car. After undergraduate school I went to medical school and again was not worried. ...
by | Apr 3, 2008 | Stories
The night of the first draft lottery I was sitting in a basement of an apartment in Chapel Hill, NC with my buddies waiting for the lottery to start. We all were in college for the college student deferment. When the lottery began everyone gathered around...
by | Apr 1, 2008 | Stories
The semester before the lottery, I had signed up to join Air Force ROTC. I was hoping to be a pilot and eventually get into the astronaut program. On the night of the lottery, I was studying in the library but got back to the dorm...
