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...
by | Jan 31, 2008 | Stories
I was a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill when the first draft was held. I was already classified 4-F due to a football injury in high school. My birthday (November 5) was #310 in the draft, so I was exempt from the draft for two reasons. I don’t...
by | Jan 9, 2008 | Stories
Although my birth date is 1948, I was already drafted and serving by the time of the first lottery. I was drafted and ordered to service on May 21, 1969. I have been told the May 1969 draft call was the month of the largest draft in U.S history. It was a few months...
by | Jan 8, 2008 | Stories
The night of the 1969 draft lottery, about a half dozen of my college friends in Avery Dormitory at UNC-Chapel Hill gathered in one room to watch the lottery on television. All of us would be subject to the outcome of this draft. Perhaps it was a premonition that...
