by | Sep 15, 2013 | Stories
The 1970 lottery was in the summer after I finished high school. With number 28 I was sure to be drafted even if the war ended, so I enlisted rather than go to college. I didn’t really have any future plans figured out and the reserves and national...
by | Sep 4, 2013 | Stories
Prior to 1966 my draft board was constantly re-classifying me I-A even with good grades and school certifications of attendance. So being from a military family anyway, I joined senior Army ROTC at the University of Georgia and thus eliminated the draft...
by | Aug 20, 2013 | Stories
A friend from my small home town had been killed in Nam in 1967. I was afraid of the draft and the coming lottery, so I kept a diligent eye on my grades. My roommates at the University of Georgia and I gathered in our Benton Apartment in front of a small TV and...
by | Aug 16, 2013 | Stories
I wasn’t subject to the draft because I had already served three years in the Marines before I started at UGA in 1966. But I was very aware of the draft because quite a few of my classmates were in law school simply to obtain a deferral, which I thought was...
by | Jul 29, 2013 | Stories
Yes, remember those days very vividly! I graduated from UGA in 1969 and started working at Macon Jr. College as an Instructor. My draft board in Cairo, Ga. (my hometown) said I had to go serve. I moved my draft status to Macon, Ga. where I was living and appealed the...
by | Jul 23, 2013 | Stories
I was living in a small trailer with two roommates who were also my classmates in the School of Pharmacy. The evening of the lottery my roommate Fred S. (from Dublin, now in Albany) had the only car – an early and very shabby Corvair. My other roommate was...
