by | Jul 9, 2012 | Stories
We were all gathered in the TV room of Kirwan Tower on the University of Kentucky campus to watch the draft lottery. A roommate drew a number in the low 30s, and soon joined ROTC to stay at UK. My number was 171, right in the middle range. At the time I was a writer...
by | Jul 5, 2012 | Stories
I was born in 1952 and my lottery year was 1971. Back then I was pretty much directionless. I flunked out of college in 1971 and was employed in a series of dead-end jobs. I was no fan of the war (who was?) but I lacked the initiative to try to evade the...
by | Jul 4, 2012 | Stories
in 1970, Illinois was significantly behind the national average in supplying draftees. My draft board offered some encouragement that I would not be called despite having a mid-range draft number (183). In August, however, the Selective...
by | Jun 27, 2012 | Stories
I was a student at Emory University when the lottery took place. It was my sophomore year in the fall of ’69. I was sitting in the TV room at the fraternity house (Delta Tau Delta) along with several of my brothers and remember watching...
by | Jun 26, 2012 | Stories
I was No. 121 in the lottery, for which I won an all-expense paid trip to Ft. Knox, KY. At the completion of AIT and about to be sent to an even better vacation spot in Southeast Asia, President Nixon stopped sending troops to the ‘Nam. I saw the last...
by | Jun 24, 2012 | Stories
I was in first year at UK Law School on Dec 1, 1969. The draft lottery did not affect me. When I graduated from undergraduate school at UK with a political science BA in May 1969, I was also sworn in as a 2d Lt in the U.S. Army as an ROTC graduate. I received my...
