by | Jan 16, 2014 | Stories
I remember being at the fraternity house that night in 1969 when the lottery took place. I was a sophomore at UGA. My number was actually a good one (228), but I didn’t realize how good it was. A good friend of my father’s was on the...
by | Jan 10, 2014 | Stories
I was a freshman at Georgia on scholastic probation after the first quarter. I needed to bring my grades up by the end of the second quarter or I was toast…surely heading to Vietnam! I was under a lot of pressure grade-wise when...
by | Jan 6, 2014 | Stories
As the evening dragged on, our gathering around the radio dwindling as the draft dates were drawn, I became convinced that my number had come and I had missed it. I knew that I had to be in the first echelon of birth dates. I had already been reclassified...
by | Dec 17, 2013 | Stories
It was 1 December 1969, and I was a freshman at the University of Rhode Island. Forty or so guys were huddled around the big TV in the lobby watching the results.About twenty-five of us put $1 each into a pool so that the guy who drew the lowest number would win the...
by | Dec 8, 2013 | Stories
207. That was my number. Anytime I hear that number in the near half-century since, I immediately recognize its significance to me. I think they got to about number 195 the following year to be inducted. Lots of wondering if they would get to my number or not. I read...
by | Dec 5, 2013 | Stories
I was finally drafted in December 1969 after graduating from UGA and trying unsuccessfully for several deferments and also to get into the Reserves. Mine was the last group to go prior to the lottery but when my lucky number turned out to be 13 I knew there was...
