by | Dec 7, 2010 | Stories
When I received my 191 lottery number, I thought I would be safe from the draft. I therefore passed up an offer to join the National Guard and decided to take my chances. As luck would have it, the Bethesda MD draft board that year (1970) went through...
by | Dec 7, 2010 | Stories
I originally was given I-A status by the local draft board even after I told them I suffered one bout of asthma at age 13. Then I got a I-Y deferral through 1969 while I was at Duke.I tried for CO status but at the hearing with my local board, that was...
by | Dec 4, 2010 | Stories
I was at Duke from 1965 until graduating in 1969. EVERY YEAR in June while I was in college my draft board (#220 Webster Groves, MO, Dorothy Laburay Clerk–can never forget that witch!) classified me I-A. Each time I had to get a letter from the...
by | Dec 2, 2010 | Stories
I was a graduate student when the first lottery was conducted in 1969, and was not watching when they first started drawing numbers. I joined the telecast when they were around No. 100 and hoped that my number wouldn’t be drawn anytime soon. When...
by | Dec 1, 2010 | Stories
I was one of the lucky ones. Watching the lottery drawing with my fraternity brothers at Duke University, many of whose lives changed during those agonizing few hours, became increasingly gleeful for me with the ongoing consumption of beer, and the number of...
by | Nov 26, 2010 | Stories
I graduated from Duke in 1969 and started that fall at Yale Divinity School. I had an automatic IV-D deferment as a divinity school student, and I felt guilty about it–but not guilty or courageous enough to turn down my deferment and claim conscientious...
