by | Jun 3, 2015 | Stories
I was drafted on March 18, 1971, two weeks before I graduated from high school. I was 18. I went to the recruiter office in Portland Oregon and asked if they could wait until I graduated before I went to get killed. They said yes. But then my brother-in-law who had...
by | Jun 1, 2015 | Stories
I graduated from High School in 1967. After graduation I registered for the draft and qualified for a college student deferment. I kept up my student deferment through the first 2 years of Community College and then transferred to the University of South Florida. I...
by | May 22, 2015 | Stories
Throughout my college years I enjoyed a college deferment, until graduating and losing my deferment in 1969, before the lottery in December of that year. This made me subject to the draft–my eventual high lottery number did not yet apply. ...
by | May 13, 2015 | Stories
In 1969 I was an undergraduate student at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. I had served in the U.S. Air Force from 1960-1964. My classification was "non-obligated". In 1965 I joined the Air Force Reserve and served at Richards-Gebaurs AFB, MO. I...
by | May 13, 2015 | Stories
In 1969 I transferred to KU as a junior and lived in Ellsworth Hall. We had a great group of guys on my floor and the lottery was a big deal that all of us viewed with trepidation. As that first lottery night approached the tension mounted–all of us...
by | May 11, 2015 | Stories
The only reason I was going to school at Texas Tech was because of the Vietnam War. I had a student deferment and as long as I stayed in school and made my grades, for the immediate future at least, I couldn’t be "called up." I didn’t know what...
