by | Nov 29, 2009 | Stories
At the time of the lottery I was a Sigma Chi pledge (Delta Epsilon Chapter), NC State University, and did not have the luxury of listening to any of the details on the evening of December 1st, but that was of no real consequence to me. Having watched the nightly...
by | Nov 27, 2009 | Stories
I was 18 years old. I had flunked out of college my first year. I had no job. I felt I was going to be drafted as soon as I turned 19, regardless of the lottery. I joined the US Army before I turned 19. I was in basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky when my mother...
by | Nov 27, 2009 | Stories
I was waiting to go to a rehearsal with the then up-and-coming Manhattan Transfer vocal group. I wasn’t even quite sure what lottery meant other than random. I was 18 years old. When September 26th, the day before my birthday, was drawn and it was 034, my...
by | Nov 24, 2009 | Stories
I remember lottery night very distinctly, during my first year in college. None of my immediate family had served in the armed forces, mainly because we were farmers and gained exemptions during the world wars. I had friends on campus from my home town and we all...
by | Nov 24, 2009 | Stories
On 1 December 1969, I was assigned draft lottery number 147, which pretty much guaranteed that I would be called up around the time of my twenty-third birthday in early April 1970. When I got my preinduction physical notice to appear in Los Angeles, I requested...
by | Nov 24, 2009 | Stories
I was a junior in 1969 and attending NCSU. Along with two other buddies we were listening to the lottery picks on a small radio. One of our buddy’s birthday was picked at number 18 and when it was called out he slapped the radio across the...
