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...
by | Sep 20, 2010 | Stories
The commons room of my dorm at Duke was as full as I’d ever seen. All the excitement was early as the low numbers were called. My number, 213, was relatively high, but not high enough for me to relax. I’d heard from some friends that if you turned in...
by | Sep 16, 2010 | Stories
I have vivid memories of that night. My college roommate and I had been studying and started watching the lottery when it had reached number 20. We watched until almost 300 and decided we were home free. We went out to celebrate and found out the next day I was number...
by | Sep 14, 2010 | Stories
I did not watch the first half of the lottery, having had a bad (and accurate) premonition of how it would turn out for me. What I remember most about what I did watch was the smiling faces of the people my age as they participated in the process of selecting numbers...
by | Sep 13, 2010 | Stories
I was one of the few males in my immediate circle of friends at school that was not concerned about the first draft lottery in December 1969 due to the fact that I had already served my country in Vietnam. My college sophomore year was 1965-66....
