by | Jan 29, 2015 | Stories
I remember watching the draft on TV in New York City. I’m not sure if I was at home or at college that day, but to me it was academic as I was in college with a student deferment until 1972. I graduated high school in 1967 and was considered an outcast as I was...
by | Jan 22, 2015 | Stories
I didn’t know it at the time, but having a low lottery number would enable me to meet and marry the most wonderful woman ever. I was a senior at the University of Kansas majoring in electrical engineering when my number of 39 was drawn. I thought, oh xxxx! I...
by | Jan 21, 2015 | Stories
It was the year of the first lottery. I recall sitting around the television room at my fraternity house, drinking beer, and watching our futures unfold. Kind of scary. My number was fairly high but I felt badly for those in the room who had a low number drawn. This...
by | Jan 9, 2015 | Stories
The lottery really didn’t affect me personally. By the time the first number was being drawn, I had been in Vietnam for a little over 3 months. I was with the 3rd Marines in I Corps, and had been running patrols and night ambushes all that time. Here’s...
by | Jan 7, 2015 | Stories
I found out my number from the TV in my dorm lobby. (McCollum Hall). My number might have been high enough to keep me out but my home county (Doniphan) had a small population. I enlisted in the Navy to avoid the Army and spent the next four years in California and...
by | Jan 5, 2015 | Stories
As I recall, KU had a home basketball game that night. I and one of my roommates went to the game; the other stayed home to watch the drawing. When we returned it was obvious the roommate who had stayed home had been drinking. I said something to the effect that...
