Posted on 10/14/2025 5:52:45 AM PDT by LouAvul
I graduated high school in 1971, the same year student deferments ended. That summer I enrolled in a Bible college as a ministerial student. But divinity student deferments had also ended by then.
My question has to do with my lottery number. IIRC, my number was 88 and my district went to ~125 for the draft. Yet, I was never called up.
I wonder why? What condition was there that they would call up all numbers to 125, except mine? My best friend's number was lower than mine and he wasn't called up because he got a hardship deferment. But I didn't have any deferment.
Another friend of mine was going to get drafted so he joined the navy and ended up in Kodiak Island for his whole enlistment. Never went to Nam either. Mr.GG2’s older brother got assigned as the commander of the station on Fire Island Alaska and never went to Nam.
I quit worrying about all the numbers and different deferments back in those days and just volunteered. After 30 years active service I figured out I liked it.
I quit worrying about all the numbers and different deferments back in those days and just volunteered. After 30 years active service I figured out I liked it.
I remember that LBJ statement. I was 17 years of age. When LBJ was elected on a NO WAR platform and sent troops to SE Asia I knew then I was a Republican even though I could not vote till 21 years of age.
My sister had a friend married to an officer. He too was shot down.
“I don’t buy it,”
I don’t buy it either. To be a prominent member of the Communist party in those days, you had to be a slavish Stalin loyalist. That’s not someone who would write a friendly letter to Truman.
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