by | Jun 11, 2013 | Stories
My physical was the next week after the lottery, in Atlanta by bus from Athens. Even with a high number, I was scared to death at the physical. As you all remember, it was rather intimidating! I just knew I was gonna mess in my pants before I got there. It was an old...
by | Jun 7, 2013 | Stories
Yes I remember the draft lottery day. Just a few weeks before the lottery I had met with a Navy Recruiter. I took a small test and he said I did well. I agreed to return in a few weeks for a ride in a jet to be scheduled at an Air Force base here in Georgia. Before I...
by | Jun 3, 2013 | Stories
I remember that day very well. I was living at Callaway Garden Apartments on the Atlanta highway. Myself and about 10 or 15 friends gathered at an apartment to wait for the lottery. Needless to say we had lots of beer and snacks and by the time the drawing was to...
by | May 21, 2013 | Stories
The Phi Deltas had a pool for the draft lottery. Number 5 won, I came in second. Number 5 was exempt, I was not. I graduated in August of 1971, and was drafted in December 1971. I served two years, in the medical corps. I liked the medical field and went back to...
by | May 16, 2013 | Stories
I remember the lottery night well. I was in Waycross, Georgia on a University of Georgia Forestry School field trip. It was supposed to be a fun lottery party, watching the show with our group of mostly seniors. I was nominated with a friend...
by | May 8, 2013 | Stories
Throughout all four years of my baccalaureate education from 1965 to 1969 my male classmates who were not able to keep their grades up were being drafted out of school. Some of them tried to get the girl students to get lower grades so that their grades would...
