Draft Stories from the BHS Class of 1969

To find out your number and how close you came to being drafted visit:
http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm

1969 (Men born 1950 and earlier) Drafted up to #195
1970 (Men born in 1951) Drafted up to #125
1971 (Men born in 1952) Drafted up to  # 95
Kinky Guenzel - Mine was 16, yes 16.  I dropped out of college and came home.  My draft notice beat me home. Had to go see Ole DR. Wyatt and he helped me out a little.  Had to ride the Wells bus line to Little Rock twice for my physical.  The first time we arrived we were 2 weeks early and they wouldn't take us.  That's when I thought I had better go see Dr, Wyatt.  The guvment was really serious about this stuff.  The second time to Little Rock, I regretfully flunked my physical like John Miller and I flunked Civics.

John Miller - My lotto number was 153 when I was at "SCA" - "UCA" now, when I dropped out I lost my student deferment and was 1A, got called to take physical. I joined USMC March 9 1970 Mike (Smith) and I were going in on buddy system , I had to be re-evaluated because of shoulder injury Meanwhile Mike left and I was 3 weeks behind him. Proud to have served and proud to still be serving in the Utah Air National Guard , " Semper Fi " carry on!
 

Robert Booth - With a lottery number of nine (9), I may be the winner of the "who had the lowest lottery number" question. My number was in the December 1969 lottery. To make sure I didn't get drafted, I made sure I stayed in school, UALR, and kept my student deferment up until I graduated. I'm also curious to know who might have been drafted or who might have enlisted.

 
Harold Jones - I was 154. Actually, the Independence County draft board contacted me in December of the year and told me that they had cut off near 100 and suggested that I drop my college deferment before the beginning of that January. That meant that I went into the selection list at no risk. Thanks to whomever it was that called my dad to recommend this.

 
Sue Ellen Lupien - Were any of you guys drafted? Don't remember hearing of anyone or could have forgotten after 30 years . . . SEL

 
Ken Jones - Mine was 101 and when I dropped out of school briefly in 1972, Independence County called up to 99. Too close for comfort back then.

 
John Vinson - I found this rather interesting (http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm) about the draft lottery that we all so anxiously watched. I was particularly interested in the July 1970 lottery as I had gone to 1-A after a bout with Calculus II and Electric Circuits II in the Spring of 1970. My number was 143 and they drafted up to 125..whew! I made a 3.0 GPA the following semester after changing from Electrical Engineering to Business and got my 2-H back.

 
Mike Mullen - I think I may have had one of the highest numbers (323 if I remember right). I went down to my draft board the week before Christmas and changed my status to 1A knowing that they were not going to get anywhere near 323 and that my status would become 1H on January 1.  Besides, my cousin had joined the Marines when he received his draft notice to avoid being in an army unit with all the screw ups that the army was getting at the time. He got off the plane in Vietnam the first or second day of the Tet offensive and loaded body bags on airplanes at Da Nang for two weeks. His first letter to me indicated that if I got a draft notice that I was to go to Canada immediately. He indicated to me that if he ran into me in Vietnam that "charlie" would not have to kill me that he would to clean up the family gene pool (i.e. remove idiots as anyone who went there was an idiot).