by | Sep 27, 2010 | Stories
I joined Air Force ROTC as a freshman in college in 1967, at Duke. I liked airplanes and I was deathly fearful of getting drafted into the Army as a foot soldier. Duke was a fairly safe place to be in ROTC and having to wear a uniform one day per week, though during...
by | Sep 27, 2010 | Stories
I was a student at Duke University when the first lottery was held. Our dormitory had a pool for the lottery. Approximately 100 guys in the dorm put $1 each into the pool. The person whose birthday was drawn first in the lottery would win the pool of...
by | Sep 26, 2010 | Stories
My memory is that it was late Thanksgiving Weekend in 1969, and I was up from North Carolina visiting with a friend at Harvard. A bunch of us were sitting in the common room of his suite, and since we were all born between 1944 and 1950, we were intently...
by | Sep 25, 2010 | Stories
I think about that episode all the time, both for the arbitrary nature of who had to serve and for the way it affected my life.Like several of the other stories, I was also at that Duke basketball game in Greensboro. We had a guy a couple of rows up listening to his...
by | Sep 22, 2010 | Stories
I do recall the draft lottery. It is one of those things that stays with you, especially if your number was low. Mine was 116, too low to chance getting drafted in 1971 following graduation.The day of the lottery, I was in Greensboro watching a Duke basketball game....
by | Sep 20, 2010 | Stories
I was in our house (which I rented along with six other students, all class of ’71) at 1218 Broad Street the night that the Draft Lottery results were announced. At about 11 that night, I heard a couple of my fellow tenants coming through the door and talking...
