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...
by | Mar 27, 2008 | Stories
Went to the Tarheel basketball game on the day of the lottery, and when we got back to the lodge the guys had been watching TV and had made a list of the lottery numbers and birthdates. I started at the beginning, and finally got to No. 339. Oh what a...
by | Mar 27, 2008 | Stories
I suppose none of us can ever forget that day in 1969 when the first Selective Service lottery came down. I sat in the lounge in my dorm at UNC-CH with many other hairy folks and watched the draft...
