by | Feb 19, 2012 | Stories
I entered UK in Civil Engineering in September, 1965, and also enrolled in Air Force ROTC. My plans were to become a pilot in the Air Force, then begin a business career. However after two years in the College of Engineering, I decided to change majors and enter the...
by | Feb 19, 2012 | Stories
I was attending the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 1970. My lottery draft number was 125; my draft board was in Lexington. It was my last year of college, as I was about to finish a 5-year professional program, and my wife was pregnant. The lottery...
by | Feb 15, 2012 | Stories
In 1961 I was in high school at St. Joe Prep, Bardstown, Ky. Our team was playing football against Old Kentucky Home. I was covering a punt and another player rolled on my right arm, breaking my arm and dislocating my elbow. I rehabbed it but did not regain full range...
by | Feb 13, 2012 | Stories
I had arrived at UK as a pretty typical Louisville boozy redneck. I left as a stoned long-haired freak. (The value of education?) Actually I have always considered pot to have been my salvation from alcohol, as after a time I got real bored with being stoned and have...
by | Feb 11, 2012 | Stories
I was in the midst of my final year at UK with graduation coming in May. The war was escalating and yet there was very little anti-war sentiment on the campus at that time, much different from places like Madison, Wisconsin. Nonetheless, I was quite anxious, but...
by | Feb 10, 2012 | Stories
The night of the draft lottery in December ’69 is etched in my memory. My family and I knew that the drawing could immediately determine the course of my life, including the possibility of losing it on a battle field in Viet Nam, where tens of thousands of...
