by | Sep 14, 2010 | Stories
I did not watch the first half of the lottery, having had a bad (and accurate) premonition of how it would turn out for me. What I remember most about what I did watch was the smiling faces of the people my age as they participated in the process of selecting numbers...
by | Sep 13, 2010 | Stories
I was one of the few males in my immediate circle of friends at school that was not concerned about the first draft lottery in December 1969 due to the fact that I had already served my country in Vietnam. My college sophomore year was 1965-66....
by | Sep 9, 2010 | Stories
I was a junior at Duke, and we were driving back from the double overtime victory over Virginia Tech at Greensboro when we tuned into the middle of the lottery on the radio. I recall hearing from about 150 until 365, and my birthday was not mentioned....
by | Sep 7, 2010 | Stories
I arrived at Duke in 1970 to start graduate school. I had previously applied for conscientious objector draft status in my sophomore year of undergraduate school. My CO file was quite large as you were allowed to submit anything you thought was relevant....
by | Sep 6, 2010 | Stories
I remember the night the 1969 draft lottery results were broadcast. Several of my friends gathered at a friend’s dorm room at Duke University to listen to the results (we were all juniors). If my memory is correct, I did not hear my number...
by | Sep 6, 2010 | Stories
We were back in our fraternity dorm room at Duke after watching the TV broadcast of the draft, trying to understand the implications of our respective lottery numbers. My roommate, Richard, was there – everyone called him The Chard. A kid we...
