by | Mar 24, 2014 | Stories
I graduated high school in 1968. Some of my friends volunteered for the Navy and Air Force to keep from being drafted into the Army and having to go to Vietnam. Others were drafted. I had two friends that walked point in Vietnam and lived to tell about it, although...
by | Mar 20, 2014 | Stories
I was a junior at Norwich University, a military college in Vermont (home and founder of ROTC) and was in ROTC with an expectation of going to either Germany or Vietnam. I chose to go to Norwich since if I had to go to Vietnam I wanted to go as an officer. I...
by | Mar 18, 2014 | Stories
When the lottery was drawn in December of 1969, I was a sophomore at UGA and had just moved into an apartment with a high school buddy and former Tucker Hall roommate, Wayne. We had several neighbors and two additional roommates crowd into our 2 bedroom...
by | Mar 10, 2014 | Stories
I dealt with the draft lottery of 1969. I had graduated from undergraduate school, a small, liberal arts school in Iowa named Wartburg College in spring ’67, and had planned to go to graduate school if I could get an assistantship, starting that fall....
by | Mar 9, 2014 | Stories
Turns out, Hawaii’s not badAfter graduation from the University of Georgia in the summer of ’69, I started job interviews. After repeatedly answering the inevitable question about my draft status (I-A), it sunk in there would be no jobs forthcoming....
by | Mar 1, 2014 | Stories
I could tell by the look on their faces.I was a Junior at UNC-Charlotte struggling with my grades the day after the 1969 draft lottery. I, like every other male student there, had tracked the lottery and knew my number.I had a French lab that afternoon in a...
