by | Aug 8, 2015 | Stories
I was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity, and one of the guys that was a math major started a pool for the upcoming draft lottery. It cost five dollars to enter and the person with the lowest draft number would win the cash in the pool. Don went through the...
by | Jul 30, 2015 | Stories
I thought I was just lucky but after I watched the lottery at my parents’ house everything changed. My birthdate of September 14 was drawn first. I went in the Army and after basic I was told I would drive a Tracker Trailer in Vietnam. I was assigned...
by | Jul 23, 2015 | Stories
In 1970, I was living in Naismith Hall on the top floor with other KU graduate students. I was already enrolled in the NROTC program, so I was not going to be drafted no matter what my lottery number turned out to be. It was 104. I did not even know...
by | Jul 10, 2015 | Stories
I was at Sterling College when the first lottery was drawn that affected me. I remember that we were all in the basement TV room. As the early dates were drawn, if it was a birthdate of one of guys in the room they just got up went to their...
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...
