by | Mar 29, 2011 | Stories
When I turned 18, I lived with my family in Nashville, Tennesee; therefore that’s where my draft board was. By the time the lottery system was in place, I had decided that, even though I opposed the war, I would not resist the draft. This was equal...
by | Mar 12, 2011 | Stories
I grew up in Asheville, NC, and by the time the lottery began, a number of friends and acquaintances from the mountains had died in Vietnam. My father had been in the Service in WW II in the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific. He was adamantly opposed to any...
by | Mar 12, 2011 | Stories
I was watching TV in the day room in my home at the time: the 4533rd Tac Traing squdron at Eglin AFB, FL. I had rotated to Florida. after nineteen months in Okinawa, and temporary duty in both Japan and Korea during the Pubelo incident.I was half paying attention...
by | Feb 1, 2011 | Stories
On December 1, 1969 I was in Danang with my unit and some guy had a black and white tv with the lottery on. We watched for our birthdates and mine was No. 128. I was 60 days short and was glad my tour was almost over. I didn’t want a day...
by | Jan 21, 2011 | Stories
I remember having a foreboding premonition the night of the lottery — I’d become involved in the anti-Viet Nam war movement on campus my junior year and had participated in the March on Washington. I feared that payback, even if left entirely to...
by | Dec 21, 2010 | Stories
In 1969 I was living in York House at Duke. In the spring I graduated from the certainty of classes into the uncertainty of the real world–the draft.I had no strong political views, so in late June, to put an end to uncertainty, I dropped by the draft office to...
