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

I best the Draft board to it. I was an Army Brat living in Germany and I talked to a local recruiter for one of the local units in Germany. I Graduated from High school June 9th 1966 and signed the paperwork in July 1966 and was in Vietnam on Jan 4th 1967 which was my Mom's 40th Birthday

Got mine, I think in 1965, while in Vietnam. 1st Sgt said he would take care of it. Apparently he did, because I haven't heard from anyone.

I recieved mine while I was on my 2nd tour

I had finished my BMT bypass at Lackland AFB, TX and my mom asked me if it was important when I talked to her on the phone. We both laughed.

never got one,itwas my job

After graduating college and NROTC in June 70, reported to my first ship (Destroyer). Spoke with my Mom in September; a letter had come from the draft board; since I had graduated, needed to report. She mailed it to me; took it to the XO and said I needed leave to report to the Board. We both had a good laugh. Turned out the NROTC unit had never notified the draft board that I had been commissioned. Ended up serving off Nam anyway (gunfire support aboard destroyer).

Although not a draft notice story I must tell you about my brother. He enlisted in the Navy right out of high school at age 18. He proudly served six years and was honorably discharged. While he was serving a notice from the government arrived in the mail, stating that he had not yet registered for the draft. I called the 800 number attached to the noticed and told the operator to check their records as my brother was still on active duty. Never got another letter after that call.

Never got a draft notice. After I graduated high school and knew I was not going to college I took my uncles (career Army) advise and enlisted in the Air Force before I was drafted, one of the beast things I've done in my life. The mistake I made was not staying in, did my 4 and out.

ROTC was mandatory for freshmen and sophomores at Ohio State in 1964. I finished the May Day review and rushed to turn in my uniform and get the $40 deposit back. Minutes later I was eating pizza and drinking beer in a High Street bar, bragging I would never have to wear a uniform again. Three weeks later, finals over I drove home to Dayton. Mom greeted me at the door with mail that accumulated over the quarter, “I think,the one on top is important.” It was my notification to stop in for a free physical. I got on the phone and called ROTC, was it too late to go advanced? Two hours later I was back at Ohio State, right hand in the air being sworn in by the commandant.

It is never rape when a democrat does it! Yesterday whilst I was driving I perchance happened to be listening to CSAP radio and as a combat wounded Vietnam veteran I became more enraged by the second because I was listening to President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara conspiring to involve the United States of America in the Vietnam War the latest butcher bill for their treachery 58,282 young American lives!