What were your feelings and thoughts when you first opened your draft notice?

Never got one that I remember. Maybe because I was classified "Conscientious Objector" so, after I tried to enlist in he Corps, I had to meet with the entire local draft board to explain why the classification was no longer accurate. ...took about an hour.

After reading the comments below and seeing so many like me, received their notice while in Nam, I have often wondered if the DRAFT BOARD ever got their act together, or is that why the DRAFT was done away with? Guess we will never know for sure. Welcome home guts and gals. Job well done, even if the journalist and th politicians would not let us win in Nam. We did our jobs in spite of opposition from the VIET NAM CLOWNS at home.

Seeing so many folks below had received their DRAFT NOTICES after serinv in NaM, i HAVE OFTEN WONDERED IF THE draft board

Was still in high school and tried to join up. My father a retired SFC who saw service in WWII, Korea and Vietnam got wind of it and had that recruiter transferred somewhere else. I did it the right way the next year, delayed entry, graduated high school Monday night was at Ft. Knox, Ky Wednesday night, Thursday morning. My dad was a smart man

I get my notice & appeal for legit reason. Go to the Board hearing in suit & tie, wait quietly while Board hears before me, & finally mine turn comes. I approach.the Board & answer every question. At end of the table is elderly man who stares right they me. He asks: "Is your father xxxxx?" Yes sir I say. "That's all I need to know!" Me? Next stop: Fort Dix. To this day, I have idea what the connection with my father was. So, in an E1/out an O-4, w/vacation in Dakto. Hmmm, thanks Dad☺

I laughed when my folks sent me my DRAFT Notice. I was, my fifth year in service, in Nam in the Delta region. I wrote on it: Get me out of Nam and I will come to you. Never get a return from them.

The draft board was like any other federal office....I was an E-4 on active duty when I got mine....send it back telling them they were way too late.

I was in Boot Camp in Great Lakes and called home when my dad (my father was on active duty in the air force at the time, in 1968) and told me he had received my draft notice, and BURNT the thing....I asked him why and he said why not it's what's everybody else is doing,besides you are already in and there's nothing they can do about it! My dad retired after 30 years of service and one thing he told me...You must join the military no matter what because you owe the country and it's people and ancestors for giving me the freedoms that I enjoyed. I was confused about the war as I didn't know that much about why it had started or caused it, my first cruise in 1970 to Nam was ok BUT my second and third tours over there went much better and I didn't care what or who caused the war I got to perform my job as the leading Gunners Mate on my ship, a Navy Destroyer George K. MacKenzie DD836 providing NGFS to the Army and Marines in country...AND WE GOOD TOO! so in the end I WAS PROUD TO HAVE SERVED MY COUNTRY NO MATTER WHAT! I retired from the Navy in 1997 as CWO4 and was happy with all my accomplishments

I was in Vietnam when I received my Draft Notice. I wrote back and told them if they could get me out of Vietnam, I would be glad to be drafted!

Didn't get a notice just a notice to register, I replied - Holy crap! Why am I getting this when I am serving on active duty?