by | Mar 13, 2013 | Stories
Like all male students at a Land Grant college, I had to take the first two years of Basic ROTC courses. One fateful day, I got a letter from my "friends" at the Draft Board informing me that, since I was 1 credit shy of where I should have been in my...
by | Mar 6, 2013 | Stories
Life is about choices. Timing of those choices creates one’s personal destiny. I believe the 1969 draft lottery led to certain personal choices that greatly affected the destiny of who, what and where I am today, in 2013.I had been assigned a...
by | Mar 5, 2013 | Stories
239 was the number that saved my life. That "luck of the draw" kept me from going over to Vietnam to fight in some useless war based on the lie known as the "domino theory".The "Domino Theory" was to Vietnam as "WMD" was to the...
by | Mar 5, 2013 | Stories
Like most all other freshmen & sophmores at UGA, I was required to take those two years of ROTC. Most were Army, some of the others chose Air Force. My two years ended in the fall of 1968. I then had to sign on the dotted line to take advanced ROTC, which...
by | Mar 5, 2013 | Stories
I’d marched through Cincinnati streets to the draft board and been prodded and poked and declared fit, but I had student deferments and then a teaching deferment for one year. I drew No. 348 in the lottery. I always remembered that number because it matched...
by | Mar 4, 2013 | Stories
I had a date the night of the lottery and we went to the Beechwood Cinema for a show. We left after the movie was over and went to a friend’s apartment close by. All there were watching the lottery drawing with bated breath! Eventually everyone but me had...
