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

I thought it was funny. I was stationed in Korea and in my third year in the Army.

I was a draft dodger, I received 4 notices finally reported, sent to BCT same day retired 28 years later as a US citizen, high school graduate and E-8 First Sargent, no regrets. One tour Vietnam many to Germany state side duties Fort Knox and Fort Polk

I got mine in early 1965. No lottery, if you're alive, you're going in. So I went and joined the Air Force. Wanted to learn Acft Mechanics. out in 1968,1/2, out 12 years, then joined ANG. Hired as a full time technician. Got to see the Mid-East for 6 months in 1991.
My feelings on any war: Go to war to win, or stay home!

I was in my first quarter of grad school in November 1968. Notice arrived the week of Thanksgiving. This can’t be real. That evening I forgot to set the brake when parking. Car rolls into another car. Bummer number 2 that day. Was to report airound e Jan 1969. In the meantime i took to heart Choice Not Chance. Auditioned for MOS 02F. Enlisted just before Christmas. I was at Ft Idix for basic on the day I was to report. Draft board never came looking for me. REFRAD 2 years, 8 months and 16 days later and re-enrolled in the same PhD program hat I left 3 years earlier

I was disappointed. A few days after I graduated High School, in May of 1969, I went to the Army enlistment office and tried to enlist. I was 5 lbs below the minimum weight for my height and couldn't enlist. Sometime later my draft notice arrived in the mail saying that I was not eligible at this time.
I went to work at Burger Chef and eat free hamburgers, fries and chocolate shakes for three years trying to gain the weight I needed. In August of 1972, at the age of 21, I was finally able to enlist. I served from August of 1972 through October of 1979 and ETS as a Staff Sargent.

When they drew my number it was over 300 something. I got the notification at the Combat Radio Operator's course at Ft Jackson, SC as I was preparing to graduate and go to Ft Gordon, GA for High Speed Radio course.

Safe from becoming another target. I was already at Lackland AFB in Bootcamp. Summer 1966

I figured I'd missed the problem of military service. I discovered that my county was drafting between 4 to 6 individuals each month for over a year. My number put me at about number 8 for the last month before I turned to old (26 years).

HOWEVER, They drafted ten of us that month - two days before my 26th birthday!

They flew us into Nashville, and bused us up to Fort Campbell. After all the testing and thinking I was about to enter Infantry basic. I asked about flight school. Took a physical and addition tests, and after basic at Fort Polk went off to Fort Walters, Texas. Graduated as a Warrant Officer nearly a year later and went directly to the Maintenance Officer Course at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

I retired 34 years (extended past 30 yrs officer service) later as a CW5 Master Army Aviator

I was furious that I wasn’t considered a valuable enough citizen to even receive one. Thanks, America.

I never received a draft notice. I volunteered in June of 1970 and enlisted in the Air Force