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...
by | May 7, 2013 | Stories
I remember vividly having a relatively low lottery number (119) and being called for a physical. At the time I was classified II-S but I was about to enter grad school and lose the II-S status. The physical was interesting to say the least and fortunately I...
by | Apr 29, 2013 | Stories
I was an advanced Army ROTC cadet at the University of Georgia majoring in Pharmacy which was a 5 or 6 year program (1965-1971). Having finished my ROTC course work in 1969, I did not attend any ROTC classes my last 2 years at Georgia, so I never went to the ROTC...
by | Apr 29, 2013 | Stories
I remember the lottery selection well. I was in the parking lot of the Coliseum at UGA drinking beer, believing I would be in the 300’s and safe from the draft. But after drawing No. 125, my draft board was kind enought to let me know I was going to become...
by | Apr 23, 2013 | Stories
I remember the lottery well. My number was 56. That was a guarantee to be drafted, but it did not matter to me as I had signed a ROTC contract in September of ’69 and was effectively already a private in the US Army Reserve. I served on active duty in Asia for...
by | Apr 18, 2013 | Stories
I had no fear or worries on the night of the lottery. Not because of the high number my birthday drew, but because I was already in Vietnam, assigned to an artillery battery on a small hill in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. For us there, across...
