To read the Selective Service’s own history of the Vietnam draft lotteries, go to www.sss.gov/LOTTER1.HTM . This site has a CHART OF LOTTERY NUMBERS AND BIRTH DATES for all four years (1969 through 1972).
There is also a lot of information at the “Fighting 15th” military outfit’s web site at www.landscaper.net/draft.htm , including examples of official notices to report for physical and for induction, as well as a contemporary news report on the 1969 lottery.
More interesting information and insights are available at a Wellesley College poli sci professor’s website: www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/draft.htm . This site has information on the draft and also lots of information on all aspects of the Vietnam war.
For a note on the non-random nature of the 1969 lottery, see www.math.uprm.edu/wrolke/esma3102/draft.htm .
To see the humorous lyrics of folksinger Phil Ochs' Draft Dodger Rag go to http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/draft-dodger-rag.html.
To see the much longer humorous lyrics/story of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant go to www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml.
Live coverage of the 1969 draft lottery by CBS (with Roger Mudd) can be viewed on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwUEABV9mg. You may have an anxiety attack all over again.
To read a recent study on how your lottery number supposedly influences your political views, see www.themonkeycage.org/2009/04/the_vietnam_draft_lottery_and.html
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