by | Jul 22, 2012 | Stories
I was a senior at Transylvania University in Lexington in 1969 when the first draft lottery was held. All of our fraternity watched the drawing on TV. I remember that two brothers sitting next to each other got No. 1 and No. 366.I had No. 111 and I knew that my...
by | Jul 15, 2012 | Stories
I started on a Design Apprenticeship at GE Jet engine division in October, 1968. While on this program I still had a II-S student deferment After the 1969 lottery with 19 as a lucky number, I wasn’t really big on the idea of...
by | Jul 10, 2012 | Stories
I remember not staying up for the lottery and going to bed instead. I felt that my student deferment was still going to take care of me for the next three years. I was living in a dorm at UK. The next morning my next door neighbor was pounding on...
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...
