by | May 3, 2010 | Stories
I was No. 119 in the lottery, and my best friend was No. 122. In its December 10th meeting the local draft board called numbers through 110 and announced that anyone with numbers up to about 125 should be prepared to be called by year-end. So we knew we...
by | May 3, 2010 | Stories
I was classified as I-A because I took a semester off to work. When I got back to Carolina, I was still I-A because my student deferment had not yet been reinstated. I was called up and went for a physical somewhere—I can’t remember where...
by | May 2, 2010 | Stories
While my draft number was not particularly high, I was destined to be a public school teacher anyway. In 1969 there was a teacher shortage and deferments were given. I was momentarily reclassified 1-A after my first year as a teacher, but the school...
by | Apr 29, 2010 | Stories
My lottery story is really not a lottery story at all, but one of irony and bad timing. My birthday came up No. 363, so it would seem that I was not going to be drafted. Technically, that is true. The technicality is that I had entered active duty in the US Army...
by | Apr 28, 2010 | Stories
When the lottery was announced, I was in Hong Kong, where I had gone to high school and where I had registered for the SSS at the U.S. Consulate and was appointed to Local Board 100 (Foreign). I was working as a photographer, my first job out of UNC. I was pretty busy...
by | Apr 27, 2010 | Stories
What I remember about that time was that the law seemed to change every year. When I started at UNC in 1965, being in school was all you needed for an exemption. Later in ’66 or ’67 I recall going to Greensboro to take a written exam to allow...
