by | Aug 30, 2010 | Stories
The first draft lottery, in December 1969, had a profound impact on my life. I still keep a reminder from that night: among my college memorabilia is a page from Newsweek magazine with the lottery results.I was out with friends early in the evening and didn’t...
by | Aug 29, 2010 | Stories
I remember the lottery well. I was mid-way through my second year at Duke Law School. I was working in the law library at the time, and everyone was talking about the lottery, especially the first year students. The law school had already been decimated by the...
by | Aug 26, 2010 | Stories
My case was unique, to say the least. My birthday, February 12, was No. 68 in the lottery. For once I had WON something!In the same month as the draft, I started experiencing moments of paralysis, which I simply wrote off as a back spasm, stress, pulled muscle, or...
by | Aug 26, 2010 | Stories
I remember the night of the lottery well. We all gathered in the common room of the fraternity house to see what numbers would be selected for our birthdays in the lottery. I got there a few minutes late and they had already picked the first ten numbers. I asked did...
by | Aug 18, 2010 | Stories
I was a student at Duke from 1966 to 1970–a very volatile period for everyone, but especially for males over the age of eighteen. Draft statuses were constantly changing, with the result that none of us who were classified II-S (student deferment) felt any...
by | Aug 16, 2010 | Stories
The night of the first lottery I was at a Duke-VPI basketball game in the Greensboro Coliseum. (Va. Tech was known as VPI in those days, as you may recall). A fellow sitting several rows below me had a transistor radio and was writing down dates and draft numbers as...
