by | Feb 17, 2008 | Stories
I was finally drafted in Sept. 1969 (after a year of avoidance due to a problem ankle but by then they would take anyone). It was impossible to get into the nat’l guard or the reserves. The navy and air force had waiting lists to get in. At the induction...
by | Feb 14, 2008 | Stories
At the time of the draft, I was a senior at UNC and planning to get married and go to graduate school after graduation. I had mixed emotions about the war, but would have served if I had been unlucky with the lottery. My friends and I were all sweating the...
by | Feb 11, 2008 | Stories
I graduated from high school in 1966 at the age of 16. Entered UNC that fall and flunked out by the following autumn. After two years of junior college during which I held a 1A draft status, I was in the first lottery in the fall of 1969 while at Western...
by | Feb 7, 2008 | Stories
I was going to go. Although I couldn’t see myself actually using a rifle. My father was an Army paratrooper during the Korean War and had a career in the Air Force afterward. He met my mom in 1951 – in Japan. My mother was...
by | Feb 5, 2008 | Stories
My initial experience with the Selective Service dates to May 1966 when I registered shortly after turning 18. New York, where I lived at the time, provided a strong motive for getting a draft card: it was one of the best ways to prove...
by | Feb 3, 2008 | Stories
On the night of the lottery, we gathered in front of the TV at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house on Cameron Avenue. We had all chipped in for a "fifth" of whiskey and had set it on top of the television set; it was to be awarded to the first person...
