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...
I was studying as a PoliSci/History major (with a II-S deferment) at the U of KY in 1969 and ready to graduate and head on to Law School the following year. The threat of the war and actually going there was foremost on my mind. I was going to SDS meetings and...
WTF! 50?! Just as well, I was just whoring around much of my freshman year in college. End up a daddy if something didn’t happen. Scared? You bet. I watched the news. Saw the body counts. So, I went in the Air Force on...
The only good thing for me regarding the 1969 draft lottery was it forced me to graduate in four years. In order to keep our II-S deferment we were required to make satisfactory progress to complete a degree, i.e. 25%, 50%, 75%, and completion. It required...
I married right out of high school, but by 1969 this merited no special draft status or deferment. I recall that this first draft lottery (of my generation) was actually a reinstatement of the lottery system used in WW II. The 1969 lottery was televised live. My wife...
I was at a UK basketball game that night and when we returned to our fraternity house (Lambda Chi Alpha) there was a list on the bulletin board that showed the results of the first lottery, listed from #1 to #365.One of my fraternity brothers saw his birthday at #1...
