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

Interesting question, but I didn't even think about it. I found out that my draft number was 15 and I rushed straight to the nearest Army recruiter to get a good job. Probably never got a draft letter because I beat them to the punch.

I never got a draft notice per se. I was working in Saint Paul and my ND draft board sent me a nice letter that I could get my physical there. I had already scheduled my enlistment physical - my recruiter said if I got the notice he would put me in a delayed enlistment (or maybe it was an advanced enlistment - it was 50 years ago.)

Never got one I enlisted. Took my tests and was offered OCS or Flight School. Wasn't a hard choice.

When I received my draft notice I was married with a baby on the way and worked for Lockheed building parts of the C-5 what a wondrous bird, but In the end I was in Vietnam I did my duty !!!! The rest doesn't matter How would folks feel if everyone dodged responsibility after 911 besides the domino effect turned out to be real my beef is now we play friends with them and there still Communist

I was in Navy Boot Camp in Great Lakes when I received my draft notice. I gave it to my company Commander, never heard another thing about it. I would not have enlisted if I was against the war. My parents taught me to think for myself.

I was still in high school when I received my notice. Not planning on going to college, but wanting to be involved in a more technical field I talked to my dad who was an Army Vet. He suggested talking to the Air Force recruiter in town. So he and I went there. I got scheduled for the testing and had very high grades. So I signed up with them. Was assigned to the 1st. Civil Engineering Squadron at MacDill AFB as a site development specialist. Only did four years active, but wish now I had stayed 20.

I reported for induction and was sent home to wait for a waiver...too many speeding tickets! I got the waiver and was told to report for induction into the Army on Monday, May 16, 1966, but on Friday the 13th I enlisted in the Air Force. Spent four years and three months and got out and I've regretted it ever since.

I was a punk who just barely made it out of High School and my number was up. So my logic was, let them give me a job or enlist so I can pick my own job. That worked fairly well and at 19 I was assigned to a communications site that controlled all the nuclear weapons sites in Europe. That scares me more now than it did!!

Was in my first trimester of graduate school. BS degree in May of 68, started PhD program in September. Notice came a week before Thanksgiving with report date Jan of 1969. I believed in choice not chance. Tried for a direct commission in the Navy, but since I had not finished my first year of Grad School I was denied. Ended up auditioning at Ft Benjamin Harrison for a choice to be an Army musician. The E5 who ran the audition gave me the lowest passing score he had served in Vietnam Nam and Korea. Enlisted late Dec of 68 a week before reporting for the draft. I was an RA, not a US as were most of the musicians, certainly not a bunch of complainers. Plane ride to Ft Dix was mostly US - service or jail, i had feelings that Nam was not a good idea; but when asked to serve I did. Went back to grad school when 3 year enlistment was over. 4 years later got the degree. Now retired.

knew it was coming and I went................