by | Aug 20, 2009 | Stories
My lottery number was low enough for me to get a letter from the Draft Board to report for a physical. I was a student at NC State, married with one child and one on the way. I wasn’t particulary fond of being drafted but I wasn’t going to...
by | Aug 19, 2009 | Stories
I was a UCLA student during the first lottery in 1969. When it occurred, my birthday came up 107 and I was I-A as student deferments had been dispensed with. At that time, we heard the government was going to take all numbers up to 195 so I...
by | Aug 18, 2009 | Stories
I was attending NC State and living in an apartment with two roommates. One of my friends (Tim) from Campbell College showed up at the apartment and suggested we all go out partying as the lottery could change our lives forever. (We were all I-A). My two roomies...
by | Aug 17, 2009 | Stories
I was a senior at North Carolina State University when the 1969 lottery was held, and when my number came up as 105, it seemed inevitable that I would be drafted. I decided, though, that I would live my life just as I had intended before the lottery, and let the chips...
by | Aug 16, 2009 | Stories
I was a senior at NC State and deeply (perhaps too deeply) involved in ROTC, when the draft took place. Like most of my fellow students, the night of the lottery, I was in the TV room watching and when my number came up as 110, I was actually happy I was in ROTC...
by | Aug 12, 2009 | Stories
Student deferment -1966-1970Joined the Army October 1970Went to 5th Special Forces Group right after the 5th PCSed to Ft. Bragg, so no Viet Nam for meSeptember 1973 got out and went to Graduate SchoolNovember 1975 joined 19th Special Forces Group and left it August...
